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Tri-State Sites in Kentucky, Indiana, and Rural Ohio
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Left: World War II war memorial in Covington Kentucky at the foot of the
Suspension Bridge. Right: The Centennial World Peace Bell Monument in Newport,
Kentucky.
  Left:
A close up of the bell. Right: The Eternal Flame for World Peace which burns on
the grounds of this monument in Newport, Kentucky.
 Left:
The inscription at the foot of the Eternal Flame for World Peace. It reads:
World Peace-Our Dream; Inner Peace-Our Search; Neither is achieved or valued
without the other.
Right: A girl with goose in fountain at MainStrasse Village in
Covington, Kentucky. With a heavy German immigration to the area, this section
of Covington reflects the architecture, culture, and foods of the German people.
Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky
  Big
Bone Lick State Park in Union, KY is 22 miles southwest of Covington, KY. In the
mid 18th Century early European explorers found a huge number of animal bones persevered
in the salt springs (which are called licks). The bones were those of mammoth,
mastodon, and giant sloth. Right: is a diorama depicting a wooly mammoth,
mastodon, and giant sloth in an Ice Age scene.
 This
is a picture from the discovery trail which wonders through the original
swamplands. The land is filled with brush and flowers now. However there still
is a remnant of a sulfur spring on this trail. You can get more information by
clicking on
Big Bone Lick State Park to get to its website.
Links on Prehistoric Animals found at Bone Lick:
Metam ora,
Indiana was founded in 1838. It once was known as Duck Creek Crossing. The
Whitewater Canal runs throug h
the town of Metamora, Indiana. This Canal ran all the way to Cincinnati which is
about 52 miles east. The town was built along the canal. Today the waters of the
canal are home to ducks and geese. Most of the canal itself has either been
grown over or has been utilized for other purposes. Metamora is one of the last
historic sites which has preserved the history and culture of the times of the
major use of the canal system.
 On
the left is what remains of an old grain mill which utilized the waters of the
canal lock to run its wheel.
Links for Metamora:
Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio
  We
stopped to see the "real" Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio. Miami University was founded in 1809 and is the
seventh oldest state-assisted university in the nation. On their main campus in
Oxford there 16,000 students. Close to 7,000 live on campus and the rest live in
Oxford, a classic college town of 8,500 full-time residents.
Glen
Haven, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
  We
next visited Antioch College in Yellow Springs,
O which was founded in
1852. Antioch's first president was the educational and social pioneer Horace
Mann. Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college that
blends practical work experience with classroom learning and participatory
community governance. It has about 700 full time students enrolled in its
undergraduate programs. Right: Is the stone stairs to the foot of Glen Haven on
the campus of Antioch College.
  What
is so fantastic about this college is that it is the home of Glen Haven Preserve
which is a magnificent hiking and conservation destination. It is fantastic.
Left: a natural dam on the stream. Right: the base of the Glen.
  Some
of the paths are paved with stones, as are the stairs we took to enter the glen.
At the foot of the glen is a beautiful stream. Eventually we got to the focal
point of the Glen which is a beautiful falls on the right.
  The
campus of the Glen includes both a small auditorium and conservation laboratory.
There are all kinds of alternative ways of hiking the grounds. One can camp out
on the grounds as well.
 As
we returned to our car we came to this nature's arch made by a fallen tree. This
site was breath taking not only in beauty but in the magnitude of the hills
which we climbed up and down. This was a wonderful workout in the heart of
mother nature's best.
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