Hadley-Ives Family Photographs from 2011. Page 3.

Page 3 features photographs from our Spring Vacation in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Year 2011 photographs page 3; see also pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Mississippian pottery with raptor motif Mississippian pot with spoonbill bird motif Human figurine made by Mississippian artist
This is evidently part of a headdress worn by someone (presumably an important someone) in the Ohio Hopewell tradition (part of a culture that flourished 2,200 to 1,500 years ago). The copper has been fashioned into a form representing a bear.
 This is another copper artifact made and used by persons in the Ohio Hopewell tradition many centuries ago. Copper hands from the Ohio Hopewell.
Mural in the Springfield, Illinois train station Barges full of coal wait in East Saint Louis A view of the Saint Louis skyline and Arch from MacArthur bridge
A pipe fashioned to resemble a prairie chicken, made by someone in the Hopewell tradition. This pipe is supposed to represent a rabbit (it looks like a pika to me). This is an artifact from the Ohio Hopwell. Here is a pipe in the form of a raven.
A futed puffin swimming Magellanic Penguins in the Saint Louis Zoo A Malaysian Sun Bear in the Saint Louis Zoo
Here is a pipe in the form of a frog. Here is a toad that hopped around our campsite in the Krodel Park campground in Mount Pleasant, WV. These Mertensia Bluebells were wet with a gentle rain that had been falling at the Hopewell National Historic Site.
Piles of snow in front of the Illinois state capitol on February 20, 2011 Grasses in the evening sun in Springfield, Illinois Naimo Jakobsson chairing a committee meeting
Petroglyph form at the Leo Petroglyph site in Ohio. The experts at the Ohio Historical Society attribute these petroglphs to people in the Fort Ancient Indian culture (flourished from about 1000 to 1600 AD). It's quite difficult to date such stone carvings. More views of petroglyphs at the Leo Petroglyph site. There is some sort of a bird figure, clearly enough, and that thing to the left of the bird might also be some sort of bird. It's difficult to interpret such things. Flowers dripping with rain in the Hopewell National Historic Site north of Chillicothe, Ohio.
Social Work Students in the Old State Capitol Social work students at the old Illinois Supreme Court Social work students waiting in the lobby of the Governor's office suite
Eric and Arthur during a hike at Leo Petroglyph State Memorial between Chillicothe and Jackson, Ohio.
 Arthur by the waterfall in the sandstone gorge at Leo Petroglyph State Memorial Eric and Arthur by the waterfall again.
Renee with her mom President Abraham Lincoln in the Old State Capitol of Springfield, Illinois Miss Art in the Governor's office
Sandstone gorge at Leo Petroglyph State Memorial in Ohio. During the rain two streams came together on this sandstone shelf. A bridge under the sandstone bluff over the little stream.
Poster by Lincoln supporters, the Wide Awakes Election poster from the 1860 campaign of Lincoln and Hamlin The chipmunk emerges to get seeds around February 20th
The Baha'i Center in Cincinnati, near Westwood. I don't think this is a fiddle head fern. More likely it is a Christmas Fern, or perhaps an Ebony Spleenwort. It was growing along the stream at Leo Petroglyphs State Memorial Eric and Arthur on the trail.
Snowball reclines in front of his cage Our pet rabbit Snowball is in a plastic bag eating a hamburger bun One of the many Eastern Cottontail rabbits in our neighborhood
Arthur examines the Ohio River, which was very high, at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Sebastian and Arthur at the mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The Mothman Statue makes a sudden grab for Arthur's head, and Arthur fends it off.
Silver Maple Blossoms on March 21st Detail of Red Maple Blossoms Red Maple Tree Blossoms on March 21st
We took a tour of the Iron Gate restaurant. Jeri enjoyed the style and decoration. We had lunch at the Iron Gate restaurant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. We camped at the Krodel Park campground at Mount Pleasant. It was rainy, but we had some breaks in the rain.
The boys with their Naw Ruz presents Opening Naw Ruz Presents Hyacinths
We stoped for a night in Maysville, Kentucky. This is a fine old town for strolling around. We took an evening stroll through Maysville, Kentucky. We enjoyed this fountain in Maysville, Kentucky.
Daffodils in backyard Daffodils with sunlight Salmon and pink colored Hyacinth
We wanted to see this house where Harriet Beecher Stowe visited when she came to Kentucky and witnessed slavery first-hand. We enjoyed a few hours in Old Washington, Kentucky, where we learned about the underground railroad. We were surprised to learn that this post office in Old Washington, Kentucky, was the first U.S. Post Office established east of the Appalachian Mountains.
Daffodils in backyard Daffodils with sunlight Salmon and pink colored Hyacinth
We went west along the Ohio from Maysville, and came to Ripley, Ohio, a center of the underground railroad.
 We stopped for some snacks in Ripley. Here is the Hadley-Ives family at the Rankin House above Ripley, Ohio. The Rankins were important in the underground railroad.
Daffodils in backyard Daffodils with sunlight Salmon and pink colored Hyacinth
As we were travelling in early April, there were some lovely tulips in bloom, like these ones in Ripley, Ohio. This lovely old house in Ripley has some fine Irises growing in the yard. The large image linked to this picture is a panorama of the Ohio River as seen from the Rankin House above Ripley, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

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