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A selection of the pictures taken during our visit to the United States.
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| A view of Philadelphia across the Schuylkill River |
Independence Hall on the 4th of July. |
The Philadelphia Museum of Art. |
A statue in front of the Philadelphia City Hall. |
The Cornerstone. A great B&B within an easy walk of the city. |
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| A farmer's market in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. |
The Amish sausages being cooked along with the onions. Delicious! |
An old caboose next to the chocolate factory in Lititz, Pennsylvania. |
Jean on the caboose. |
The Lunch Basket. The best place to eat in Intercourse, Pennsylvania. |
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| Standard transport in Intercourse. |
A cornfield in the Kishacoquillas Valley. |
An Amish boy turning the hay in the Kishacoquillas Valley. |
The horse-drawn rig approaches the turn. |
Cemetery in Belleville. |
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| The grave of a paternal Great-Grandfather in Woodlawn Cemetery, Milroy, Pennsylvania. |
His GAR star. |
The Belleville Lutheran Church viewed from the cemetery where my great-grandfather, Solomon Henninger is buried. |
Meeting my second-cousin John Henninger at the grave of our Great-Grandfather. St. John's Lutheran, Belleville, Mifflin County PA |
John and Vonnie Henninger. Their home page is http://members.aol.com/JonVon107 |
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| Siglerville, PA |
The Siglerville Lutheran Church. |
The Siglervile Church. |
My grandmother, Ellen Henninger, was baptised and married to William Charles Nale here. |
The interior. |
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| A window in the church with the family name. |
Portulaca, a favourite of my grandmother. |
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
The Lincoln Diner in Gettysburg where we took almost all of our meals with Bob and Sharon. |
Bob Nale and family at our Gettysburg motel. |
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| A view of General Meade and the Gettysburg Battlefield from the roof of the cyclorama. |
David and Jean at the Virginia Memorial. |
A barn on the battlefield. |
Bob Nale standing next to a Whitworth Rifle, a breech
loading gun imported by the Confederacy from England. |
A distant view of the battlefield. |
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| The monument to the Bucktail Brigade |
The Lutheran Seminary across a field of corn. |
A statue of General John Reynolds. |
A cannon near the site of the Gettysburg Address. |
Words from the Second Inaugural Address. |
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| Cannons on Cemetery Hill. |
A statue of General John Reynolds. |
The Pennsylvania Monument. |
My cousin Bob doing his famed impression of Napoleon. (But why at Gettysburg?) |
The Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. |
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| Ten Nales at the doors of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. |
Harper's Ferry National Historical Site. |
Harper's Ferry main street. |
Harper's Ferry main street. |
Harper's Ferry. |
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| The "Fort" of John Brown in Harper's Ferry. |
The view from the Shenandoah National Park Skyline Drive. |
Looking across to the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
Along the trail this doe seemed unafraid. |
Here are her beautiful fawns. |
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| Monticello |
Monticello front entrance. |
A butterfly at Monticello |
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia. |
Mr Jefferson in front of the building he designed. |
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| The U of V Rotunda viewed from the bottom of the quadrangle. |
A magnolia tree on the U of V campus. |
The Jefferson Monument in D. C. |
A closer view of the Jefferson Monument. |
Mr Jefferson inside his monument. |
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The Smithsonian. The Nation's attic. |
In the Smithsonian is The “1401,” a 199-ton, 92-foot-long steam locomotive, built in 1926 for the Southern Railway. In 1945, it pulled President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral train. |
The Capitol in Washington D. C. |