Here and There

 The bride and I are on a mini 40th wedding anniversary trip to Vermont, which includes my book talk tomorrow (Saturday Sept. 14) on Juneteenth to the Green Mountain Civil War Round Table in White River Junction (at the Bugbee Senior Center after a noon luncheon).

On the way, we stopped in Rutland yesterday and discovered Martin Henry Freeman:

 

Last week, in Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, NY, our dog Bella checked out the memorial statue of a soldier representing the NY 77th Infantry Regiment, part of the Army of the Potomac. (The number is a reference to the Revolutionary War American victory at Saratoga in 1777.) The soldier's statue was pulled down and smashed to pieces by still unknown vandals in 2020. Insurance and the listed organizations contributed to its restoration.

Col. George L. Willard, by the way, was killed on the second day of Gettysburg stopping Barksdale's Charge, Longstreet's exploitation of Sickles' rash advance into the peach orchard. The Confederate General Barksdale was mortally wounded. 

Bella and I continued our park stroll to the Spirit of Life statue, sculpted by Daniel Chester French, who later did the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall.