Category : Travel

Fort Necessity and George Washington

“Fort Necessity” is arguably the answer to the question of “Where did George Washington become George Washington?” No one ever asks that, but maybe they should. Definitely they should. It’s where George Washington sort of took over from aristocratic old-school British General Edward Braddock in the French and Indian War. Supposedly Washington also sort of

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Kirtland, Oh!

I’d been to Kirtland before, but not actually inside the temple (the Reorganites close up shop pretty early IMHO). Fortunately, my aunt and cousin were heading through the Greater Cleveland area last weekend, which was a decent-enough pretense to head up there and check it out before closing time. It’s only about 2.5 hours from

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