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Vacation

August 3 2003 at 12:44 PM
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Just returned from a Presidential vacation. I went through Benjamin Harrison's home in Indianapolis, Indiana, his gravesite in Crownhill cemetery and the Zoo. You can visit the website; www.benjaminharrison.org , scroll down to the bottom and click on where ir says 'hear him speak' and see what his voice sounded like in 1888 in this rare recording.

Went south to Louisville, Kentucky and visited Zachary Taylor's grave, then south to Hodgenville,and Abe Licoln's birthplace and farm and another boyhood farm a few miles east, Knobcreek. Up to Cincinnati, Ohio through William Howard Taft's birth home and the Zoo. A little east to U.S. Grant's birthplace in Point Pleasant, a little east to his boyhood home and schoolhouse in Georgetown, and towards the west by Indiana where William Henry Harrison is buried at North Bend, Ohio.

That now makes 14 Presidential gravesites I have visited.

Just thought I would share a little trip trivia.

 
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Laura
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How interesting!

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August 3 2003, 4:15 PM 

Hi John! Thanks for sharing the details of your trip with us. Sounds like you had quite an itinerary! How long was your vacation? Did you drive?

Laura

 
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Vacation

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August 3 2003, 4:32 PM 

I left early monday morning and it took give or take 5 hours to drive to Indianapolis.

Indiana is wierd time, when I got there they were an hour behind, in Indianapolis, I assumed they were on Central time, but the Atlas did not have the line but way on the Illinois border or such.

A little computer research showed all but 11 counties are in the Central Time Zone, the rest, basically, follow Eastern time, but stay on Standard time, and do not go to Daylight Savings time, thus the hour behind, it seems confusing.

Anyway, I gained an hour in Indianapolis, then going into Kentucky, I had to remember to switch back and set my clock to wake up before I wanted to, WHAT???

 
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Correction

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August 3 2003, 4:36 PM 

It should have read, 'only 11 counties are in the Central Time Zone', I said all but 11.

 
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