Cacapon State Park in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Myself and my Dad at the mountaintop overlook at Cacapon State Park where one can look east from the Appalachian Mountains out over the Shenandoah Valley and see the Blue Ridge Mountains further east
View of Camp-fire area where we roasted marshmellows in evening overlooking the lake at Rocky Gap State Park near Cumberland, Md.
Outside pool area at Rocky Gap
Outside grill area at Rocky Gap
Inside swimming pool at Rocky Gap
My Dad - Rick Hopper - at Rocky Gap State Park in western Maryland near Cumberland.
Myself - Kristin Hopper - at Rocky Gap State Park
Rocky Gap State Park
Rocky Gap State Park
Mariemont (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio) - a national examplar of town planning
Mariemont Recreation Center Parish building
Village of Mariemont Square - with movie theater behind fountain
Mariemont Inn located on Mariemont Square (with its Tudor style architecture)
Mariemont Inn
Mariemont Inn room - with television hidden behind painting over fireplace (push button and television appears)
Mariemont Community Church (technically it is the oldest church in America since it's stone roof is from a 1200's medieval England tithe barn)
Mariemont Community Church - viewed from park between it and original Mariemont Square
Mariemont Community Church - criminal's chapel (patterned after medieval Anglo-Saxon churches where criminals were not allowed in main chapel of church)
Mariemont - original square viewed from park (and fountain) separating it from Mariemont Community Church. Mariemont was designed by John Nolen who is credited with inventing the principles and practice of city planning.
Myself with my Mom in park separating original Mariemont Square from Mariemont Community Church
Myself with my Mom at original Mariemont Square across from church.
Frisch's Mainliner in Fairfax next to Mariemont, Ohio. Frisch's was the first restaurant to invent the double-deck hamburger.
White Castle Hamburger - they are so small and inexpensive that one buys a bag full
Cincinnati J.A. Roebling Suspension Bridge - built before Brooklyn Bridge (both same size)
Delta Queen - oldest continuously operating steamboat in America
Cincinnati Union Terminal - one of the best examples of art deco architecture
Inside Cincinnati Union Terminal
Inside Cincinnati Union Terminal
Mosacic Mural Inside Cincinnati Union Terminal
Mosaic Mural Inside Cincinnati Union Terminal
Mosaic Mural Inside Cincinnati Union Terminal
Mosaic Mural Inside Cincinnati Union Terminal
Myself -- Kristin Hopper - eating at the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati
Mountain Thunder Steam Excursion Train in Cumberland, Maryland
Mountain Thunder steam engine excursion train in Cumberland, Maryland
Mountain Thunder
Mountain Thunder
Serpent Mound - an effigy mound built by the Fort Ancient Culture prehistoric Native American Indians of America. It is located near Peebles, Ohio in southwestern, Ohio. It is ranked number one on UNESCO's World Heritage Site (similar to Stonehenge, it served as an astronomical observatory for mound builder Indians of America. It is located on a unique rock formation where magnetic compasses do not work and which attracts an extremely large number of lightning strikes during any thunderstorm. Unlike some mounds built by the mound builder Indians, not human remains or artifacts were buried in the mound. Nearby are conical mounds built by the much older culture of the Adena mound builder Indians. Similar mounds built by the Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient Culture Indians were built throughout all of Ohio with Hamilton County where Cincinnati is located having over 240 mounds. Some archaelogists believe that a great road existed between the Newark Earthworks (the largest mound complex in the world located in Newark, Ohio which is also an astronomical observatory and the large complex of Indian mounds in Chillicothe, Ohio (with both of these complexes built by the Hopewell Culture of mound builder Indians).
Serpent Mound - an aerial view that allows one to see the effigy of a serpent swallowing an egg or some other object. Each of the curves point to sun and moon rises for the change of seasons.
Serpent Mound
Myself with my Mom at Serpent Mound
