Blog to Alaska: Day 2, Mile 615
June 19, 2012
Tonight we are in Richmond, Indiana just over the Ohio border and just NW of Cincinnati. We are 25 miles from Hueston Woods State Park in Ohio where Judy and I spent our El Cheapo 3 day honeymoon in a cabin (until we ran out of $$) in 1969 and very close to Miami University where we both received MS degrees in 1971. A key memory for me as a graduate student was being ordered by the dept chairman to guard the research labs when there was a march on the ROTC building in protest of the Vietnam War. Students were maced out of trees where they had tried to escape the police batons and then the dogs were then let loose on them. All were collected up and thrown in UHaul trucks for arrest. Not a good memory. Shortly afterwards, Kent State occurred and Miami was closed down for 3 weeks when students across campus protested that the University had remained open by conducting the Great Flush-In. They flushed all the toilets across the campus and drained the City of Oxford water tower. In so doing they pulled gravel and mud into the city pipelines and blocked the water system…therefore no water for fires…school closed. Ahhhh, the 70’s….
Tonight we are in Richmond, Indiana just over the Ohio border and just NW of Cincinnati. We are 25 miles from Hueston Woods State Park in Ohio where Judy and I spent our El Cheapo 3 day honeymoon in a cabin (until we ran out of $$) in 1969 and very close to Miami University where we both received MS degrees in 1971. A key memory for me as a graduate student was being ordered by the dept chairman to guard the research labs when there was a march on the ROTC building in protest of the Vietnam War. Students were maced out of trees where they had tried to escape the police batons and then the dogs were then let loose on them. All were collected up and thrown in UHaul trucks for arrest. Not a good memory. Shortly afterwards, Kent State occurred and Miami was closed down for 3 weeks when students across campus protested that the University had remained open by conducting the Great Flush-In. They flushed all the toilets across the campus and drained the City of Oxford water tower. In so doing they pulled gravel and mud into the city pipelines and blocked the water system…therefore no water for fires…school closed. Ahhhh, the 70’s….
View from our Trailer in Indiana
The weather and roads have totally changed today since entering Ohio. Clear blue skies and wide functioning highways without potholes and construction – a big change from Pennsylvania. The drive through Ohio was mainly expansive views of cornfields and beautiful farms and big silos. We arrived Richmond around 4:30 PM and the camp owner said they were having a drought (93F) and hoping for rain by the weekend. The grass is brown, trees are showing distress with yellow leaves and fields of soybeans are stunted. Tonight after a wee gin & tonic, we took a walk around the campground and found a “hiking trail”. So we took it….It was more like a dark, narrow, tree-covered gothic maze with plenty of cobwebs. After about 20 minutes, we came out on the other side of the campground glad to see daylight again and headed back to the trailer for a glass of wine….....medicinal of course!!
The biggest news is that our son John was a participant in the Artists Take Times Square last night. One of his paintings was projected on a billboard in Times Square. We are so PROUD of him!!
Tomorrow, Springfield Illinois and Lincoln!!!
See you down the road,
David & Judy
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