Exciting Title About A Stroll Through Civil War History

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What's that supposed to be?

Nothing it isn't supposed to. That's autumn in the Appalachian Mountains. Autumn is incapable of being disingenuous.

That's it? Point at a forest, give it a little clickety-do, put your frame thing around it and call it a cover image?

Yeah except there's 525,960 minutes in a 365 day, 52 week calendar year and, unless you point and clickety-do on November 16th between 13 and 15 hundred EST, you'll miss it.


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Where is this prodigiously aberrant location incapable of maintaining its appearance one minute to the next?


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We're on it now. Circular in shape for superior aerodynamics designed to travel 25 miles per second in a galaxy surrounded by a cluster of galaxies called Local Group.

That's way over my head.

I knew you'd say that.

Of course you knew I'd say that.

I knew you'd say that, too. It isn't just ours its over. We aren't the only ones here.

Where?

High Ground Park - East Tennessee USA


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We had the whole place to ourselves. There was a gentleman exiting the trail when we pulled up, remember?

Short dude in a flannel. Late 40's probably. Baseball hat with an extraordinarily rounded bill and looks like he could lay off drive-thru's for awhile. He's excited. A little too excited. Exceeding the posted limit. The volume in his voice was a few notches too many when his twitchy index finger frantically pointed at the car:

HEY! That's the same car they're looking for on the Amber Alert!! Look!

I'm not a fan of people I've known forever shoving unwanted things in my face so when dude came at me with his phone on blast I put out my not index finger like stay.the.fuck.back. In his defense, they were in fact looking for Tennessee's #1 selling vehicle.


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California - Toyota Camry or Ford Fusion. UK - Volkswagen. Blending. Tennessee - Subaru now where were we?


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High Ground Park - 3/4 mile out and back trail on top of 39 protected hillside acres. It was designed 10 years ago to preserve one of eight Civil War forts occupied by the Northern Union in 1863—Fort Higley. All eight forts surrounded Knoxville preventing a Southern Confederate siege of the city.


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"There's a lot of war history on the trail. Sure is a lot of history to take in out there. The trail is decorated in Civil War history" said all the reviews when I searched walking trail, view, Knoxville, paved, easy.

There's a sweeping breeze with just enough strength to rain seasonal leaves. At the other end is a row of empty red chairs. Exceptionally well crafted chairs by the way, probably Amish built, they were in need of attention. So I got comfortable and forgot where I was for awhile, packed a freshy and virtually made High Ground Park a reality with nineclaws@nineclaws and edprivat@edprivat.


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