My father has been home from the hospital for a few days, but suffered a setback when he fell last night.
I haven’d had much time for blogging, but I’ve been reading to Dad from Patrick J. Jung’s “The Black Hawk War of 1832.” Yesterday Mom wanted to get in on it so I could read her to sleep during her nap time. I’m finding the book to be an excellent one. Dad and I enjoy stopping every paragraph or two to discuss it. I really like the way Jung uses the Tecumseh/Tenskwatawa pan-Indian movement to show Sauk/Fox involvement and provide context for the Black Hawk war.
The above photo is from the south end of Logan County, Ohio, where I was looking for one of the sites where Tenskwatawa and his followers congregated before they moved to the Tippecanoe River. If I remember right, I should have been looking more to the right from this scene.
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