[JustAmy]

On May 10th in 1869 the first transcontinental railroad was completed by
the driving of a symbolic golden spike at Promontory Summit in The Utah Territory.
Today, Promontory Summit is a National Historic Site managed by the National Park Service.

Happy Golden Spike Day!

[OESY]

A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake
Credit & Copyright: Michael Wilson

Happy Mother's Day, Amy. Thanks for the reminder about the Golden Spike. On our last vacation out West,
we visited Promontory Summit for a reenactment. Afterwards, we had a chance to talk with the engineers.
Fascinating. Less thrilling was swimming in the Great Salt Lake--as my grandfather had 100 years ago.

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[OESY]

A picture memory brings to me;
I look across the years and see
Myself beside my mother's knee.
I feel her gentle hand restrain
My selfish moods, and know again
A child's blind sense of wrong and pain.
But wiser now,
a man gray grown,
My childhood's needs are better known.
My mother's chastening love I own.

— John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)


Happy Mother's Day to all!

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