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        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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Not So Long Ago

The New American Digest Posted on July 17, 2026 by DTJuly 17, 2026

Headline: GOP Senator Readies Sanctions Bill Against Canada As Toxic Wildfire Smoke Chokes Millions

Ohio Sen. Moreno To Introduce Bill To Sanction Canada Over Wildfire Smoke
" … introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity."

We'd have gone in to help put the fires out instead of applying sanctions

... and they'd have welcomed us.

We call that "summer air" out this way.
Sky just doesn't look right if you can see through it in late July and August.

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The DrillPress

The New American Digest Posted on July 17, 2026 by DTJuly 15, 2026

Probably a blacksmith shop; probably Greenfield Village.
But I wouldn't bet on it.

I've always been fascinated with machinery of ... basically the late pre-electricity era. Steam-powered, hand-powered. Belt-driven, high-precision tooling. Some fascinating work came out of some of those shops. Didn't even have computers.

Something has been lost - perhaps just the era - since everything has become so dependent on computers.

On the other hand, those old-timers couldn't work in nanometers (a nanometer is incomprehensively small; if a nanometer was expanded as long as an inch, an inch would be 400 miles long. There is work done everyday at such scales.

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Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
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