Black Hawk Monument, overlooking the Rock River, Oregon, Illinois
Yesterday, Joy and Alan, Karla and Vicki and I went up to Oregon, Illinois to see the Black Hawk Monument, a huge concrete statue on a bluff overlooking the Rock River. A very pleasant trip, Joy's home--a modern log house--was a a highlight of the trip (the same people that own the Belgian Draught horses). We had dinner at White Pines State Park lodge, a log-cabin affair built by CCC workers (like my dad, maybe my dad?) during the Great Depression. Dinner, chicken and ribs, was ordinary, but with good company, we had a very nice time. An all-day affair, I left at 11am and got home at 11pm in the midst of a gully-washer rain storm.
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