Category: NPS

And They’re Off!

Oct 20, 2024

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Ben East

in Family, Government Studies, Non-Fiction, NPS, Politics, Running, Virginia, War

I headed down off the knoll and onto the course, tracking my son’s progress along fields of long-buried soldiers and lost, dud ordnance, gamely chasing a PR in the glory of his youth.
Potomac Heritage Trail

Oct 13, 2024

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by

Ben East

in Family, Nature, NPS

We stopped for breakfast on a rock beside a rope swing, musing aloud about swingers throwing themselves from such a height into the water.