Gifford Pinchot State Park, Lewisberry, Pennsylvania
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. ~ Proverbs 14:27
Time to move again – a whole 49 miles! It seems like we didn’t do a whole lot at this stop, but we managed to get a lot of our “work” done, so that’s very good!
There were monuments and fences everywhere.
I’ll have to check it out, and then try to talk Blaine into visiting! : )
Knowing where we’re heading, I was doing some pre-research one morning, just to see what I could find and to answer a very specific question I had. As usual, I got deeper into it than I planned. . . .
And so, the lessons on the American Revolutionary War continue with some very surprising information I found on battlefields.org. Just when we thought we’d put that war behind us!
Did you know that the Revolutionary War didn’t just involve us and the British? Did you know that very quickly, other nations were also involved, making it a global conflict? There’s a lot of information I could share, but the basics are – –
‘We the People’ (so to speak), included the 13 colonies’ Patriots, the French, the Spanish and the United Netherlands. And there were battles fought far from our shores in places like the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Europe and India, and Naval battles all over the Atlantic and around the British Isles.
The British sure had their hands full! And that’s why they hired 30,000 professional German troops – Hessians who were hired out by Germany’s princes or nobles to fight other people’s causes for them. In addition, they had the support of loyal Native American tribes, and the Loyalists (colonists who were still loyal to Britain).
Personally, I think the French and Spanish were already ticked at Britain from years of ‘land-grabbing’, and saw Britain’s problems with their American Colonies as an opportunity to try to conquer them while they were focused somewhere else.
Caledonia State Park, Fayetteville, Pennsylvania
Once we got set up, we took a walk around a small portion of the campground, but even so, it was still a good bit of a hike. We even ran across some history connected to the area.
And dinner was wonderful! We’d been to the grocery store before we left Lewisberry and ran across stombolis that were on sale bogo. They make them there, and are normally $5.99/pound and weigh in at around a pound, so we picked them up and had dinner for $3/person! And we only ate about a half to two-thirds of it, so we’ll have dinner another night as well!
They must’ve used an entire pound of pepperoni!
plus cheese, a lot of which leaked out onto the pan while it was cooking.
There was still a lot left though!
