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Bob Iger returns as Disney CEO, replacing Bob Chapek after a brief, tumultuous tenure
Published Sun, Nov 20 20229:53 PM EST Updated Mon, Nov 21 20224:03 PM EST
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Bob Iger is back as CEO of Disney.
Bob Chapek was named CEO in February 2020 and came under fire for various decisions.
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Bob Iger is back.
, in a shocking late Sunday announcement, said it had reappointed Iger as chief executive, effective immediately, after Iger's hand-picked successor as CEO, Bob Chapek, came under fire for his management of the entertainment giant.
"It is with an incredible sense of gratitude and humility — and, I must admit, a bit of amazement — that I write to you this evening with the news that I am returning to The Walt Disney Company as Chief Executive Officer," Iger wrote to employees in an email, which was obtained by CNBC.
Shares of Disney, a Dow component, closed up more than 6% on Monday.
The dramatic upheaval comes 11 months after Iger left Disney, and days after Chapek said he planned to cut costs at the company, which had been burdened by swelling costs at its streaming service, Disney+. Earlier this month, the company's earnings vastly underperformed Wall Street's expectations. Even its theme park business, which reported a surge in revenue, delivered less than what analysts had projected.
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Iger's return also comes as legacy media companies contend with a rapidly shifting landscape, as ad dollars dry up and consumers increasingly cut off their cable subscriptions in favor of streaming.
Iger will help the company's board develop a new successor, Disney said in a release.
Chapek was named chief executive in February 2020, succeeding Iger, who had previously said he wouldn't return to the role.
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Shares of Disney have fallen about 37% so far this year. The stock hit a 52-week low Nov. 9.
Iger has signed on to work as CEO for two years, Disney said Sunday, "with a mandate from the Board to set the strategic direction for renewed growth and to work closely with the Board in developing a successor to lead the Company at the completion of his term."
The company said Chapek stepped down. Soon after Chapek took over in 2020, Covid-19 became a pandemic and forced the shutdown of Disney's theme parks and prevented it, for a time, from releasing movies in theaters. Nevertheless, the company's stock soared in 2021, before crashing down to earth in recent months.
"We thank Bob Chapek for his service to Disney over his long career, including navigating the company through the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic," said Susan Arnold, Disney's board chair. She will remain in that role.
Chapek, whose contract as CEO was extended earlier this year, planned a hiring freeze, cost cuts and layoffs across the company, according to a memo CNBC obtained earlier this month. The internal memo came three days after the company's poor quarterly earnings report.
Iger, who held the CEO role for 15 years at Disney, had favored Chapek as his successor. The two ultimately had a falling out, and their conflict cast a shadow over the company's future. Chapek distanced himself from Iger with a series of decisions, including his new approach to streaming prices for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+.
Iger is a widely respected and liked figure at Disney. He oversaw its deals to acquire Pixar, Lucasfilm and its Star Wars properties, and Marvel – all of which have become multibillion-dollar intellectual property behemoths.
Chapek, meanwhile, angered employees with his initial silence about the "Don't Say Gay" law in Florida, where the company's Walt Disney World resort is located. He then received blowback from Republican politicians, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for opposing it. Earlier this month, CNBC reported that Chapek had been in touch with Republican leaders in preparation for the GOP taking over the House.
Chapek also was criticized for his handling of the controversy over Scarlett Johansson's pay for her work in the Marvel movie "Black Widow."
Chapek did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read Iger's email to Disney employees here:
Dear Fellow Employees and Cast Members,
It is with an incredible sense of gratitude and humility—and, I must admit, a bit of amazement—that I write to you this evening with the news that I am returning to The Walt Disney Company as Chief Executive Officer.
When I look at the creative success of our teams across our Studios, Disney General Entertainment, ESPN and International, the rapid growth of our streaming services, the phenomenal reimagining and rebound of our Parks, the continued great work of ABC News, and so many other achievements across our businesses, I am in awe of your accomplishments and I am excited to embark with you on many new endeavors.
I know this company has asked so much of you during the past three years, and these times certainly remain quite challenging, but as you have heard me say before, I am an optimist, and if I learned one thing from my years at Disney, it is that even in the face of uncertainty—perhaps especially in the face of uncertainty—our employees and Cast Members achieve the impossible.
You will be hearing more from me and your leaders tomorrow and in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, allow me to express my deep gratitude for all that you do. Disney holds a special place in the hearts of people around the globe thanks to you, and your dedication to this company and its mission to bring joy to people through great storytelling is an inspiration to me every single day.
Bob Iger
Read Disney's full announcement here:
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that Robert A. Iger is returning to lead Disney as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Iger, who spent more than four decades at the Company, including 15 years as its CEO, has agreed to serve as Disney's CEO for two years, with a mandate from the Board to set the strategic direction for renewed growth and to work closely with the Board in developing a successor to lead the Company at the completion of his term. Mr. Iger succeeds Bob Chapek, who has stepped down from his position.
"We thank Bob Chapek for his service to Disney over his long career, including navigating the company through the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic," said Susan Arnold, Chairman of the Board. "The Board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry transformation, Bob Iger is uniquely situated to lead the Company through this pivotal period."
"Mr. Iger has the deep respect of Disney's senior leadership team, most of whom he worked closely with until his departure as executive chairman 11 months ago, and he is greatly admired by Disney employees worldwide--all of which will allow for a seamless transition of leadership," she said.
The position of Chairman of the Board remains unchanged, with Ms. Arnold serving in that capacity.
"I am extremely optimistic for the future of this great company and thrilled to be asked by the Board to return as its CEO," Mr. Iger said. "Disney and its incomparable brands and franchises hold a special place in the hearts of so many people around the globe—most especially in the hearts of our employees, whose dedication to this company and its mission is an inspiration. I am deeply honored to be asked to again lead this remarkable team, with a clear mission focused on creative excellence to inspire generations through unrivaled, bold storytelling.
"During his 15 years as CEO, from 2005 to 2020, Mr. Iger helped build Disney into one of the world's most successful and admired media and entertainment companies with a strategic vision focused on creative excellence, technological innovation and international growth. He expanded on Disney's legacy of unparalleled storytelling with the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox and increased the Company's market capitalization fivefold during his time as CEO. Mr. Iger continued to direct Disney's creative endeavors until his departure as Executive Chairman last December, and the Company's robust pipeline of content is a testament to his leadership and vision."


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The weather is colder now, and we're celebrating the holidays already! Although I love late fall and the holiday season, I miss the glory days of summer and the fun of those warm weather day trips! It's time to slide in a couple posts about one of my favorite trips this summer -- not a day trip, exactly. It was a 2-day affair, an "overnighter." My sister and I had been on the shorter "Passage to Five" excursion offered by Chesapeake Lights in May; before we'd even gotten off the boat that day, we'd signed up for the once annual 2-day trip that takes place every August.
The lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay are a varied offering of (almost) comical mishaps (one was mistaken as a target and bombed by the Navy), unexplained tragedy, spooky hauntings, and lessons in bravery in the face of almost constant danger.
Every year in early August, Captain Jack Richards takes his boat, the M/V Sharps Island, and 14 lucky passengers, on a tour of the southern part of the Chesapeake Bay to see 11 lighthouses or former lighthouses (three are bases of former lighthouses with lights attached). For lighthouse fans this is a must-do tour! But even if you're not a huge fan, the lighthouses and stories of the Bay are interesting, and the opportunity to become better acquainted with the Chesapeake Bay and the communities on it is wonderful. For instance we learned that the poles sticking out of the water every once in a while, such as the photograph below, are pound nets -- a way of fishing that only a few watermen, with special licenses, are authorized to run.
Captain Jack and First Mate Jane are no-nonsense but pleasant to tour with, and very knowledgeable about the Cheseapeake Bay, having several decades of experience between them). If they say move, then you'd best move, because there's a reason for it. If they say "clamp on," then you best find something to grab, because they're anticipating a bump of some sort. Although we had no excitement (thank god) on our trip, they started the 2-day excursion with a serious talk about safety and the need to listen to the captain (or the first mate) if they start barking orders.
We left out of Tilghman Island on a beautiful Saturday for the 2-day tour (and yes, the theme song for Gilligan's Island was hummed by several of us). The skies eventually turned overcast further south in the Bay. The first stop on our itinerary was a lighthouse I'd already visited by land, Cove Point Lighthouse. Unlike the Passage to Five excursion that we'd enjoyed earlier this summer, several of the lighthouses we were seeing that day were also accessible by land. However, seeing the lighthouses by water -- the way they were meant to be viewed -- gave a better perspective.
We learned that lights on the Chesapeake Bay are to alert navigators to water hazards as well as to serve as navigational aids -- if you see the Cove Point Lighthouse, for example, then you're on the northside of the mouth of the Patuxent River. In several places on the Bay, land is distant and hazy, with few readily identifiable landmarks to let boaters know exactly where they are. In the years before GPS provided pretty accurate locations, the lights told you where you were -- which river you were happening upon or which island you were near.
The next lighthouse was, interestingly enough, named Point No Point Lighthouse. Sometimes you really have to wonder how these lighthouses were named. Point No Point lighthouse, unlike several of the others on the Chesapeake Bay's Western Shore, doesn't mark a light, although there are nearby shoals that pose a hazard. It stands two miles removed from the shore, six miles north of Point Lookout and the entrance to the Potomac River.
This lighthouse's life began when it ran away from the worksite. Work began on the lighthouse in 1901, but it was plagued with problems from the get-go. Shortly after the caisson was towed to the site in April 1903, disaster struck. A temporary construction pier built by the contractors during the previous season collapsed, and the caisson, which was secured to the pier, overturned and floated away. A tugboat trailed after the wayward caisson and picked it up the next day off Rappahannock River, 40 miles south of the construction site -- such excitement! The caisson was towed to Solomons, MD where it was repaired. Finally, on October 21st the caisson was towed back to the site, and secured. The lighthouse was finally completed in June 1904.
In 1938, Point No Point Lighthouse became fully automated, though this did not mean that it was soon bereft of keepers. A crew of coastguardsmen remained at the lighthouse until 1962, when it was finally converted to unmanned operation.
Next stop was Point Lookout, at the southernmost tip of Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, where the Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay. Point Lookout Lighthouse is an original structure that has a reputation for being haunted. Also unlike many other lighthouses, this lighthouse had several women keepers.
There are many eerie claims that this lighthouse is haunted (and given Point Lookout's Civil War history, there is certainly the catalyst for a good haunting). The Civil War completely transformed the point. First, the Hammond General Hospital was built in 1862 to care for Union wounded. In 1863, Confederate prisoners began to be held at the hospital; and soon Camp Hoffman, a vast prison camp, was built, eventually holding 20,000 prisoners, of whom more than 3,000 died due to the harsh conditions, limited food rations and poor shelter from the elements.
We then headed south of the Potomac River, into Virginia, to the Smith Point Lighthouse. "Smith Point," at the mouth of the Potomac River, has been marked by a succession of lights, having been served by three towers, three lightships, a screw-pile lighthouse, and the present structure. The first light went up in 1802.
Interestingly, if you've ever wanted to live in a lighthouse, here's your chance -- the lighthouse is for sale, for about $500,000, featuring "a water view from every window." Almost affordable. There's no flood insurance to be had for it though, as it's in a "flood plain."
For a late lunch (around 1:30 p.m., and we were famished!), we headed over to Tangier Island. Tangier Island was really fascinating. I'd never been to one of the islands on the Chesapeake Bay, other than the readily accessible Tilghman Island, which, although parts of it still hark back to the original island working community, much is getting built up with vacation homes. It's fast losing its character.
Tangier Island is inaccessible enough -- only by boat or, surprisingly, airplane -- that it not only retains it's unique, authentic waterman community character, but the inhabitants still retain a unique accent that more closely resembles English from Restoration Era England than the East Coast southern twang you'd expect on the mainland. I kept walking slowly past people who looked as if they lived on the island to eaves drop so I could hear the accent for myself, until I realized how creepy that made me seem.
As you leave the docks of the boat or ferry that brings you to Tangier Island, there are several old ladies in golf carts who will take you on a $5 tour of the island. Take it (and then please tip generously). Although the tour points out some silly things ("over here is the old health center; over there is the new health center" (ironically right next to a graveyard), and "there's a souvenir shop, there's some interesting things in it"), it's a good way to hear some of the history of the island and get a sense of what life is like there -- one thing is for sure: it's still continuing on.
Tangier has a school with 12 grades, with about 80 students. We learned that although crabbing and oystering is a big source of employment, a lot of the "young men" are hiring themselves out to run barges along the Chesapeake Bay. We learned that fairly recently they got high speed internet on the island, although that hasn't changed much, and that most people shop on the mainland (although there's a grocery store on the island), taking the ferry across to Crisfield.
As you walk around the island, you'll notice a lot of graves in front and side yards. It's a casual approach to death that eludes us mainlanders. Wikipedia notes this is "an old custom once common in colonial America prevailed into the early twentieth century: families often buried their relatives in the yards of their homes. This custom was abandoned because of the space limitation of the small yards on Tangier, and there are now churchyard cemeteries at each of the island's churches." But signs on the island, and the lady tour guides themselves, say this is because the only place fitting for graves is also, unfortunately, the only place fitting to build a house: high land. They don't want their loved ones to float away. Tangier Island is just 3 feet above sea level. Mother Nature sneezes and the island is flooded.
Sadly, Tangier Island itself is endangered, as it is sinking and eroding away. And like many other disappearing islands of the Chesapeake Bay, it'll be gone someday.
Know before you go #1: Several of the lighthouses may be visited by land, Cove Point and Point Lookout among them. The website for Point Lookout State Park is http://dnr2.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/southern/pointlookout.aspx.
Know before you go #2: A hat; a camera with extra batteries, memory cards and a camera "rain jacket" to shield your technology from the wave spray that occasionally gets kicked up; sun block (which you should put on at the beginning and refresh every few hours; and bug spray are well advised. Pack a few snacks as lunch on day one is a late lunch.
Tip#3: If you don't go on the lighthouse tour, visit Tangier Island anyway. There's enough there that I could have made a whole day trip to it. Drive to Crisfield, take the ferry over to Tangier Island, have lunch at one of the Islands two restaurants, walk around the island, take photos of the birds (apparently birding is a great reason to visit the island), purchase a few souvenirs, board the ferry and head back to the mainland. There are one or two bed and breakfast inns on the island as well.
Check out this post for Part 2 of this trip!
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Labels: boat tours, Chesapeake Bay, Civil War, heritage tourism, lighthouses, Maryland, quaint town, Virginia
The Famous and the Blameless at Laurel Hill Cemetery
If you are at all interested in exploring a cemetery, then Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, is the one you should start out with -- especially if you think it'll be the ONLY one you decide to tour.
Laurel Hill's creators and organizers intended the cemetery to serve as a civic institution designed for public use. The cemetery was founded in 1836 by John Jay Smith, who was distressed at the way his deceased daughter was interred in a Philadelphia churchyard. He and other prominent citizens decided to create a rural garden cemetery five miles north of Philadelphia, a location that was viewed as a haven from urban expansion and a respite from the increasingly industrialized city center.
Before public parks and museums became commonplace, rural garden cemeteries, and Laurel Hill in particular, were multi-purpose cultural attractions where people could experience the art and refinement previously known only to the wealthy. Artists furnished lovely statuary for the more well-to-do inhabitants, and paths and roads were laid out with an eye to gradually revealing pleasant views and landscaping arrangements.
Not surprisingly, given its location on the bluff overlooking the Schuylkill River, Laurel Hill became an immensely popular destination in its early years and required tickets for admission! Nowadays people look askance when I mention I'm a tombstone tourist and have just spent an afternoon exploring a cemetery. Writer Andrew Jackson Downing reported "nearly 30,000 persons…entered the gates between April and December, 1848." Wow!
Today, however, you can find a solitude there that you can't find in most nearby state parks, walking on hiking trails frequented by the gabbling hordes. As my husband and I strolled around Laurel Hill, we encountered several couples, of varying ages, who drifted from tombstone to tombstone -- tombstone tourists like us. There was a group of four women, obviously related, who diligently photographed the more lovely markers. One woman I encountered took a more organized approach, seeming to photograph each one and names and dates in one family plot, I wondered whether she was a genealogist. One elderly woman I spoke with admitted she loves visited cemeteries, like I do, recommended one in New York that we "must see" and said she was at Laurel Hill, on that particular day, with her adult son and his dog. They were celebrating his birthday together doing what they enjoyed doing the most. But that was it -- in an incredibly large urban park.
Even if you're totally alone -- and sometimes it seems that way in a hilly cemetery, where trees, monuments, and rolling hills can obscure the view of other living creatures -- cemeteries like Laurel Hill; Hollywood in Richmond; Mount Olivet in Frederick, MD; and Loudon Park in Baltimore are far from creepy. The city street noises echo through, although muffled, and in Laurel Hill, I heard the sounds of a rowing race in the river below. Birds twittered from the trees, and squirrels played hide and seek among the stones. It is not spooky, and so far (knock on wood), I've never encountered the restless dead. What I did encounter were some very unique markers -- artistic expression in marble and granite, that tried to represent the lives just lived, or their hopes for the next life.
During and after the American Civil War, Laurel Hill became the final resting place of hundreds of military figures, including 42 Civil War-era generals, including Battle of Gettysburg victor General George Gordon Meade. Like the Victorians before us, we picnicked in the cemetery, on a bench near Meade his grave.
The view from the cemetery, overlooking the Schuylkill River.
Laurel Hill became the favored burial place for many of Philadelphia's most prominent political and business figures, including Matthias W. Baldwin, founder of the Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henry Disston, owner of the largest saw factory in the world (the Disston Saw Works); and financier Peter A. B. Widener. Civil War generals and military heros can be found there, as well as Revolutionary War figures, whose remains were moved there by the cemetery's organizers, who wished to make Laurel Hill the place to be, or rather, The Place to be buried.
There are several notable monuments memorializing more modern people. For example, there's the very interesting giant mike and bright blue stadium chairs marker for Harry Kalas. For those of you who are not Phillies fans, Kalas was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, a position he held from 1971 until his death in 2009. We also saw the breathtaking sculpture Aspiration by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, the Berwind tomb monument -- possibly my favorite of all the monuments that I've seen.
Of all the cemeteries I've visited so far, Laurel Hill is by far the most organized for fund raising.
It holds the Gravediggers Ball annually. Every fourth Friday there are walking tours. The cemetery even sells logo'd apparel. And there are several books written about it, including the $5 guide to the cemetery which you can purchase from the cemetery office. Visitors to Laurel Hill can now bring their cell phones and tune into an audio tour that highlights the oldest section of the Cemetery. An introductory exhibit, kiosk with maps, directions for dialing in, and the first stop are all located at the main entrance.
Interestingly, it also offers, on its web site, a brochure to make the cemetery interesting to kids, called the "I Spy Tombstone Hunt." This brochure, downloadable from the website, introduces kids to types of tombstone, what the different symbology is, how to recognize the grave of a Civil War Union soldier, and the different materials used in tombstones, including the fabulous "white bronze."
Getting there: Laurel Hill Cemetery's main entrance is located at 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19132. Visitors can also access the site via a secondary entrance, located immediately off of Kelly Drive on Hunting Park Avenue.
Hours: Laurel Hill Cemetery's gates and office are open Monday – Friday 8 a.m. - 4:30 pm;
Saturday – Sunday 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Except in the case of special events, all vehicles and foot traffic must exit the cemetery grounds by 4:30 p.m. daily. Although the lady in the office said it's only closed on Christmas and New Year's Day, but sometimes opened up on Christmas, the website indicates the the cemetery is closed on major holidays, including New Year's Day, Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas; admission is free except for tours.
Dogs: yes!
Website: http://www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org/
Updated May 2018
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Labels: budget-friendly day trip, cemeteries, heritage tourism, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Retracing a Veteran Ancestor's Steps in Cold Harbor National Battlefield
When my husband and I had visited Richmond last June, my sister reminded me that our ancestor, George Washington Spertzel, the second generation of Spertzels in the United States, had fought at Cold Harbor.
I'm pretty proud of his story and his service to our country, and that's why I'm writing about our visit to Cold Harbor and George Washington Spertzel this week.
George (sometimes he went by his middle name) had enlisted on 1 November, 1861 in the 101st Pennsylvania, a Civil War Volunteer Infantry Regiment, that joined McClellan's Army of the Potomac for the Peninsula campaign in which McClellan fought his way to the outskirts of Richmond. In May 1862, his regiment fought at Seven Pines, and George was injured on May 31, at Fair Oaks, VA (i.e., Seven Pines). The specifics of his injury are unknown, but they were likely fairly minor, as he remained attached to the 101st,
After the Peninsula Campaign ended, George's regiment was sent to coastal North Carolina and soon became a part of the ill-fated garrison at Plymouth (more on that in a minute). He was discharged almost a year later on 1 April on a "Surgeon's Certificate" for rheumatic knees. His discharge was from New Bern, NC.
He may have had reason to be grateful for his painful knees, because a year later, in April 1864, with help from a rebel iron-clad, Confederate General R. F. Hoke captured the entire Union garrison, including the 101st Pennsylvania. The enlisted men were imprisoned in Andersonville, GA, where the death rate was appalling. Only a small fraction of the prisoners of war that walked into the prison camp ever made it out. To me, it seems he dodged almost certain death, for which, obviously, I am profoundly grateful. I wonder if he knew about the fate of his former regiment?
But by then, George, using his middle name of "Washington," had re-enrolled in Company B of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, and by June 1864 he again found himself near Fair Oaks, the site of his original injury. Except this time, it was a few miles further south and he was in Cold Harbor, VA.
So that's one reason why we were there. Cold Harbor, which my husband and I visited last weekend, is interesting for its earthworks, which was a fairly new innovation in the art of warfare; the earthworks preserved there are some of the best to be found anywhere in the United States, and stretched out for 7 miles. It's an impressive amount of work, digging those ditches!
There are several trails and a pleasant mile-long drive through the 180 or so acres that make up the battlefield park. Most of the surrounding land is farmed or has homes scattered on it. It was there that Grant's Army of the Potomac unsuccessfully clashed with Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Nearly 13,000 Union troopers were injured or killed, compared with just 5,000 Confederates (by then it was a war of numbers, and Grant had more men to spare). Grant's goal was Richmond, but Lee again successfully deflected the threat. Grant never forgave himself for this battle. He considered the losses too great for no gain at all.
George, as with any individual soldier, experienced only a slice of the overall battle. Although his experiences are unrecorded, there is a history of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry that provides a pretty detailed account of the regiment's part of the Battle, and it helped me imagine what he went through. According to a history of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, at noon on 2 June, the regiment was sent to the left of the Fifth Corps, where it was ordered to throw up breast-works. These were barely completed, before the enemy opened upon it a flank fire from his artillery.
On the following morning, the regiment was ordered a half-mile to the right, to the support of a battery, and at seven, the enemy brought his twenty-four pounders into play, killing two men and three horses belonging to the battery. The regiment was subsequently ordered to the front line,and in reaching it, was obliged to pass over a grain-field which was raked by the enemy's infantry and artillery fire. The charge across this was gallantly made, but with a loss of eight killed and nineteen wounded. A galling fire was kept up during the entire day from behind breast-works, and, notwithstanding this protection, George's regiment suffered considerable additional loss, with another 11 killed and 46 wounded.
I don't know whether we came close to the breastworks that George fought in during the battle. We certainly checked out several earthworks along the Union lines (from the confines of the designated path). I don't know whether he was there, within the park confines, or further beyond, on privately owned land that Civil War tourists are discouraged from trespassing upon.
This ancestor of mine could claim to have seen some of this country's most historic events. Although he missed the Battle of Gettysburg, he was living just a few miles away during it, and surely heard the guns fire and the cannon blast. He lived through some of the most notable and deadliest battles of the Civil War. What he thought about all that is lost. He lived until February 1902, and he is buried in Idaville United Methodist Church Cemetery, not far from where my own father was born, near York Springs, in a small farm house.
Monument to the Pennsylvania Union troops
who fought at Cold Harbor, located at the
Cold Harbor National Cemetery.
Cold Harbor National Battlefield is one of several contained within the Richmond National Battlefield Park. On our last trip, we visited Tredegar Ironworks, which is the National Park Visitor's Center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park. It's located next to the American Civil War Museum, also a must-do for the Civil War buff.
Getting there: 5515 Anderson-Wright Dr.,Mechanicsville, VA 23111
Hours: Park battlefield areas are open sunrise to sunset.
Dogs: Dogs are allowed but must be leashed at all times.
Website: http://www.nps.gov/rich/historyculture/cold-harbor.htm
Labels: budget-friendly day trip, Civil War, heritage tourism, Richmond, Virginia
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
The brave and daring few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
The Confederate graves at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA.
In honor of Veterans Day, I thought I'd post this entry. This is an accidental blog: I hadn't originally planned a post around the National Cemetery in Winchester or Soldiers Circle in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Front Royal, or for that matter, the Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore, the Confederate memorial just a few hundred yards away in the civilian cemetery, or the National Cemetery at Cold Harbor, VA, until I started going through the 483 photos from 2 days in October dedicated to leaf peeping and seeing where the road took us. How we got so far off of our intended itinerary is the subject of still another blog post. This is the fun of day trips and the overnighters that are increasingly slipping into the blog: the unplanned and unexpected discoveries.
The National Cemetery at Loudon Park, in Baltimore. One hundred yards past the fence
in the back are the graves of the Confederate soldiers.
Seeing those cemeteries, I started thinking about childhood trips to the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, and of course, Arlington, VA. And more recently, unexpectedly coming across the Confederate graves at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick (itself a Southern town, back in the day) and Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore. And of course, Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, with the biggest memorial to the Confederate dead of them all. My husband and I were both touched by the monuments of the cemeteries.
Confederate graves and statue of Robert E
Lee at Loudon Park Cemetery, near the
National Cemetery.
After the Civil War, the country -- North and South -- reflected on the War's toll. Two percent of the American population, mostly young men, had perished. And the South mourned the Lost Cause.
I've read other travel authors, who state that they can get a sense of a town's history through its cemeteries, that upon going to a new place, they seek out the cemeteries. Although I'm not so sure I can read a town through its dead, like reading someone's history through looking at her palm, there are clues. You can easily get a sense of who is who, by strolling through the local burial ground. Who thought they were so important, and had the money to back it up, that their grave marker was the biggest and most flamboyant? Which are the big family names? What did the town hold dear?
It's clear that Front Royal held dear its Confederate history. The Soldiers Circle, a simple yet striking tribute to Rebel soldiers who died in the Battle of Front Royal, makes that clear. Located on top of a hill overlooking the town, Soldiers Circle is composed of 90 graves marked by classically simple marble gravestones encircling a mass grave, topped by a striking monument honoring the Confederate dead.
Soldiers Circle in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal, VA.
In November 1868, the Ladies Warren Memorial Association (it's always the women, isn't it?) were chartered to collect the remains of dead Confederate soldiers buried in various sites around Warren County, VA. Locating, removing, and re-interring these remains was labor-intensive (and not very pleasant) and expensive, especially difficult in the post-Civil War era. In a short time, however, the Association had located the remains of 276 soldiers, representing each state of the Confederacy. The remains of 186 unidentified Confederates were buried in the center, and in 1882, the monument installed above the grave to memorialize it.
The monument to Col John Mosby.
The ladies also helped erect another monument Prospect Hill Cemetery in September 23, 1899, along with the survivors of Colonel John Singleton Mosby's celebrated Rangers in memory of their comrades who had been captured and executed by Union troops exactly 35 years earlier.
On that fateful day in 1864, between 80 and 100 Rangers of Mosby's 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry entered Front Royal to disrupt the supply lines of General Phil Sheridan's Valley Army, which at that time was battling Confederate General Jubal Early's Southern forces in the main Shenandoah Valley. This raid against the Union troops was no different than the dozens of other successful raids the Rangers had conducted in the previous 18 months. Its ending, however, would be vastly different and would be remembered as one of the most tragic episodes of a tragic war.
After setting up his ambush and engaging the enemy's ambulance train, Mosby realized that his command was being surrounded by General Wesley Merritt's cavalry division, which was following the ambulances. Mosby immediately initiated a retreat towards Chester Gap; the retreat quickly became a running gunfight. During this action, six of Mosby's Men were captured, and executed. Four of the six were shot before the horrified citizens of the town; the other two were offered their freedom if they would disclose the location of Mosby's headquarters. When they refused, they too were executed, hanged on a walnut tree that stood where the cemetery is now.
A monument remembering the work of the Ladies Hollywood
Memorial Association in Richmond, VA.
Many Southern towns seemed to have these Ladies Associations, which were dedicated to memorializing their Confederate heyday and celebrating the mythos of the Confederate "Lost Cause." These women "with breaking hearts amid the gloom of defeat," according to the History of the Confederate Memorial Associations (Confederated Southern Memorial Association, 1904), took upon themselves the "care of the graves of the Confederate Dead, and erection of monuments to their memory," which "has ever been, and is, the special trust of the Memorial associations." The language of this pamphlet embodies the Victorian tendencies toward melodramatic excess that is often found in the Lost Cause mythos -- itself a topic worthy for a blog (although not this one).
The Ladies Warren Memorial Association was organized by Miss Mary Simpson, a member of a local family noted as teachers. Having had two brothers killed in the Confederate Army, Major Robert Simpson and John Simpson of the Warren Rifles, she personified Southern patriotism and in her home in Front Royal, organized the Warren Memorial Association, which established Prospect Hill Cemetery, the first public burial ground in Warren County.
At first I thought that maybe that's how this town, like so many other little Southern towns in the late 1860s and the decades following the Civil War, came to terms with the defeat of the Confederacy. Maybe, I theorized, in collecting and burying their nameless dead (often in mass graves), and erecting monuments to the unidentified soldiers -- of which there were often more than those who could be identified -- was how they put the past behind them. Literally, burying it, wrapped in the glory of the Lost Cause. And once they did, perhaps they were taking the first necessary steps toward -- although it took decades -- moving forward as part of this nation. But as I did a little more research into the Ladies Memorial Associations, I realized this belief was mistaken. According to Caroline Janney in her book, Burying the Dead But Not the Past, the Ladies Memorial Associations made the Confederate burial places shrines that perpetuated nostalgia for a romanticized "Old South," where slavery and abusive slave owners didn't exist, a place that was a victim of Northern aggression; these "shrines" instead perpetuated the sense of southern victimhood and hostility.
To the Memory of the Unknown (Union) Dead of the Civil War, in the Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore.
An estimated 700,000 soldiers, North and South, died in the Civil War. As the death toll rose, the U.S. Government struggled with the urgent, but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops, and that's what propelled the creation of the national cemeteries. As early as September 1861, the War Department directed commanding officers to keep accurate and permanent records of deceased soldiers. Hasty graves near battles were all marked with numbered head boards, and the numbers were carefully recorded, against the future when these records would be needed to identify remains. An Omnibus Act in July 1862 directed the President to purchase land to be used as a National Cemetery "for soldiers who die in service to the country." By the end of 1862, 14 national cemeteries, most less than 10 acres, had been established. Cemetery sites were chosen where troops were concentrated: camps, hospitals, battlefields, and railroad hubs.
Six-inch square markers note the location of unknown soldiers; identified
soldiers are marked by the upright marble grave markers;
Winchester National Cemetery.
At the end of the Civil War, the grim task of surveying lands at the various battlefields to locate, count, and identify Union remains began. That's not a job I'd have wanted! The dead were identified by letters, receipts, diaries, photographs, marks on belts or cartridge boxes, and by interviewing relatives and survivors.
By 1872, 74 national cemeteries and and several "soldiers lots," together containing some 305,492 remains, had been established.
Despite the efforts and the War Department directive to keep careful records, about half were unidentified and unidentifiable. At first, only soldiers and sailors who died during the Civil War were allowed to be interred in the national cemeteries. In 1873, eligibility was expanded to all honorably discharged Union veterans.
Numerous Union soldiers from surrounding battlefields were re-interred at the Winchester National Cemetery, including those from the different battles of Winchester, the Battle of Front Royal, Battle of New Market, and Battle of Harpers Ferry, as well as actions at Snickers Gap, Martinsburg, WV, and Romney,WV.
In the Winchester National Cemetery, there are 14 monuments to Union regiments, corps, and states that either are represented by some of the soldiers buried in the cemetery and/or had participants in the 3rd Battle of Winchester. The oldest monument dates to 1864 and was erected for the 38th Massachusetts Infantry. There are also two "monuments," typical to National Cemeteries created for re-interred Union soldiers. They are both seven feet, six inches in height, and are made of an original cast iron seacoast artillery tube, secured by a concrete base. One is located on each side of the flagpole. In addition, An upright historical marker typical of those erected by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources is also near the opening of the cemetery, with a focus on the Third Battle of Winchester, which occurred near there.
Plaques stationed around the cemetery, as well as several other national cemeteries, also provide stanzas from Theodore O'Hara's poem, "The Bivouac of the Dead," which I provided at the beginning and end of this post.
Confederate soldiers could not be buried in national cemeteries, nor were they afforded any benefits from the U.S. Government for many decades after the end of the Civil War. When the reburial corps in the late 1860s found the remains of Confederate soldiers lying near those of Union soldiers, they removed the Union soldiers but left the Confederates' bodies. Because identification of remains was difficult at best, many Confederate soldiers were reburied in national cemeteries, unintentionally as Union soldiers. Confederate prisoners of war were often interred in "Confederate sections" within the national cemeteries.
Unknown soldiers' marker
in Cold Harbor, VA
National Cemetery
But that left most the Confederate dead, often interred in shallow graves, scattered around field hospitals and battlefields, until the various memorial associations gathered them up and memorialized them in local burial grounds. And although my sympathies are clearly with the Union, I've come around to my husband's more egalitarian approach that as a nation we need to honor even these mens' lives and deaths -- and reclaim them as the Americans they were, every last one of them -- although not the banner and institutions for which they marched.
It's worth noting that in the Winchester National Cemetery, local men, who surely had living relatives who'd remembered the Civil War, were buried there after perishing in service to our country in World War I (and subsequent wars). By then these men and their families and their hometown all viewed themselves as American. I wonder what the families thought as their loved ones were laid to rest along side Union soldiers that two generations previously had fought against their families? I guess reconciliation came at last, although it took at least 50 years.
Future centuries of Americans will be able to read clues to the history of their country through these graveyards. I wonder if they will understand what they see?
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from War his richest spoil -
The ashes of her brave.
Getting there: Soldiers Hill is located in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal, VA; the Winchester National Cemetery is located at 401 National Avenue, Winchester, VA.
Dogs: Although many cemeteries allow well-behaved owners to bring their pets, they are not welcomed in either the Winchester National Cemetery, or other national cemeteries, nor Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Hours: Pretty much dawn until dark.
Detail from the frieze on the Maryland Monument in Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore.
Labels: Baltimore, cemeteries, Civil War, heritage tourism, Maryland, Virginia, Winchester and Frederick County
Autumn Glory in Swallow Falls State Park
"Autumn burned brightly, a running
flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees"
~ Faith Baldwin, American Family
We went on a weekend getaway in search of some romance, my husband and I. And in search of autumn's exquisite show. And maybe along the way, we'd visit some places we'd never been to before. After visiting Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive (in the rain and fog), we'd headed up to Oakland, MD to Swallow Falls State Park, in search of autumn glory.
Swallow Falls State Park is located on the west bank of the Youghiogheny River, not far from Oakland, and is considered one of the best places to go leaf peeping in early October. The park features Maryland's highest free falling waterfall, Muddy Creek Falls, as well as smaller waterfalls on the Youghiogheny River and Tolivar Creek. The park is also worth visiting to enjoy its stand of old hemlock trees, some more than 300 years old, one of the few remaining stands remaining in Maryland.
Muddy Creek is a crashing 53-foot waterfall. Tall hemlocks dominate the woods that the Canyon Creek Trail travels through. The 1 1/4-mile long trail guides hikers to some of the most breathtaking scenery in western Maryland.
We went where the more famous and noteworthy have trod before. This breathtaking scenery attracted Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone in the summer of 1921. Calling themselves "the Vagabonds," these three wealthy captains of industry camped at the top of Muddy Creek Falls. Although they are remembered as industrialists rather than for their interest in the outdoors, Ford himself often insisted that he was in reality just "a very simple man, a man of nature" who was an avid bird watcher and amateur astronomer.
Their heavy camp kitchen truck caved in a bridge on the road coming into the campsite -- so you know it wasn't hardship camping! But as a result, the crowds that tended to gather around these famous men couldn't visit them, allowing them the seclusion they sought.
They set up their tents and cots just in time for darkness, ate a modest meal from tin cans, and then turned in, tired from a long day of travel. The three men were in great spirits. That first morning, they stared at the falls for hours, sitting in canvas-backed lawn chairs, sharing humorous stories from their childhoods, lulled by the roar of the nearby falls.
At Muddy Creek Falls that summer, they were more concerned with connecting with nature than in their inventions and industry. The direct contact with nature they were seeking reinvigorated them -- as it can all of us who seek the beauty and wonder of the autumn season and the awesome falls.
My husband and I not only reconnected with nature along this beautiful little hike, but we started reconnecting with each other, another step on a continuous journey together.
Getting there: 222 Herrington Ln, Oakland, MD 21550
Hours: Dawn to dusk
Dogs: Perfect for your pooch!!
Website: http://dnr2.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/western/swallowfalls.aspx
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Scientists find over 60,000 new Maya structures (thanks to LIDAR)
The map extends over thousands of square miles.
September 28, 2018 - Updated on October 5, 2018
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LiDAR or 3D map of Tikal. Credit: Luke Auld-Thomas and Marcello A. Canuto.
More than 61,000 ancient Maya structures have been uncovered in Guatemala by a team comprised of only 18 researchers. Their secret? Laser tech known as LiDAR that can peer through the dense jungle and create a topographic map of thousands of square miles.
X-raying the jungle for ruins
Tikal (tee-KAL) is a ruined Maya city located in the northern Petén province of Guatemala, which used to be a very important and influential city during the heyday of the Maya Empire (1000 BCE-1500 CE).
The first archaeologists who arrived at Tikal during the late 19th century had to trek several days through the steamy jungle in order to reach the long-lost city.
Today, most of Tikal's major buildings have been excavated, including structures such as the Plaza of Seven Temples, the Palace at the Central Acropolis and the Lost World complex. However, many other temples, buildings, and roads still lie hidden.
But thanks to modern technology, modern archaeologists don't have to wander endlessly through the jungle in search for artifacts and hidden ruins.
To peek through the dense vegetation, an international team of researchers strapped LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology on a low-flying aircraft which surveyed 2,100 square kilometers of terrain around Tikal.
Top: Tikal seen above the trees. Bottom: same view, this time stripped of vegetation by LiDAR. Credit: Luke Auld-Thomas and Marcello A. Canuto/PACUNAM.
LiDAR or 3D laser scanning was developed in the early 1960s for submarine detection from an aircraft. It works by generating a laser pulse train which can travel through the gaps of dense vegetation. By calculating the time it takes for the laser pulse to reflect back to its source, researchers can determine the elevation of the ground. This way, archaeologists can identify human-made features on the ground, such as walls, roads, and buildings.
According to Marcello A. Canuto, director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane, and Francisco Estrada-Belli, a research assistant professor and director of the Holmul Archaeological Project, the team was able to identify more than 60,000 structures in the Petén forest of Guatemala.
LiDAR map of another Maya settlements north of the ancient city of Tikal. Creidt: Luke Auld-Thomas/PACUNAM.
The breathtaking video below offers a glimpse of the power of LiDAR and the intricate Mayan structures hidden beneath the canopies.
The new findings suggest that the Mayans used more advanced agriculture practices than previously thought. Roads linking many of the urban centers of the time also suggest that Mayan cities were more closely connected than earlier thought.
"It seems clear now that the ancient Maya transformed their landscape on a grand scale in order to render it more agriculturally productive," said Canuto in a statement. "As a result, it seems likely that this region was much more densely populated than what we have traditionally thought."
"Seen as a whole, terraces and irrigation channels, reservoirs, fortifications and causeways reveal an astonishing amount of land modification done by the Maya over their entire landscape on a scale previously unimaginable," Estrada-Belli added.
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This Week at YSU, Dec. 2, 2013
Monday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m. YSU Dana School of Music piano students perform "Piano X-travaganza – A Piano Christmas Concert" in Bliss Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 3:30 p.m. Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Ronald E. Rosser speaks at the Career Paths Afterschool Program at Niles Middle School, 411 Brown St. in Niles, Ohio. Rosser is a former Army soldier who received the military's highest decoration for his actions in the Korean War. The YSU Center for Human Services Development serves as the fiscal/grant administrator of the program.
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 12:15 p.m. The YSU Dana School of Music's Percussion Ensemble performs a free Music at Noon concert in the Butler Institute of American Art.
Wednesday, Dec. 4. Women's and men's basketball doubleheader in Beeghly Center. The women take on Miami (Ohio) at 5:15 p.m., followed by the men against Robert Morris at 7:45 p.m. The women also play Cincinnati 2:05 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. More at www.ysusports.com.
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m. The YSU Dana School of Music's annual holiday music extravaganza, Carols & Cocoa and the Dana Holiday Concert, is at Stambaugh Auditorium. Carols & Cocoa in Stambaugh's Ballroom features seasonal favorites, culminating in a holiday sing-along. Dana Holiday Concert in the Concert Hall features "Magnificat" and "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas." Tickets at the Stambaugh Auditorium Box Office, 330-259-0555 or online www.stambaughauditorium.com. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students, senior citizens, and YSU faculty and staff with a valid YSU ID. Free for children under 12 and YSU students with a valid YSU ID.
Thursday, Dec. 5. Experts from NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland visit YSU as part of the "NASA Roadshow," to provide no-cost engineering consulting for four area companies that are facing technical and manufacturing challenges.
Thursday, Dec. 5. The YSU Board of Trustees meets on the following schedule, with all meetings in the Trustees Meeting Room on the first floor of Tod Hall unless otherwise noted: Noon, Board Lunch and Presentation (Ohio Room, second floor, Kilcawley Center); 1 p.m., Academic Quality and Student Success Committee; 1:30 p.m., Collective Bargaining and Negotiations Subcommittee; 2:30 p.m., Intercollegiate Athletics Subcommittee; 3 p.m., University Affairs Committee; 4 p.m., Institutional Engagement Committee; 4:30 p.m., Trusteeship Committee.
Friday, Dec. 6, 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The YSU Department of Theater and Dance's Penguin Playhouse and Alpha Psi Omega perform a Holiday Cabaret, in YSU's Spotlight Theater.
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, 8 p.m. YSU's Ward Beecher Planetarium shows "Winter Skywatch." The planetarium also shows "In My Backyard" at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. Free.
Saturday, Dec. 7, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. YSU hosts "JFK and Dallas," a free seminar on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath.
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Q: Automatic Windows Service Not Starting I have a services running in Windows Local Services which is set to Automatic Startup. Every so often this service doesn't start after a reboot and there are no errors in the event log.
The service uses a domain service account as its impersonation. I have a feeling that the machine is having difficulty communicating to the domain controller and verifiying the logon which could be preventing the service from starting.
Questions
Are service account credentials cached for service logons? What is the expected behaviour if the logon cannot be verified?

A: No, the account credentials are not cached in this situation.

A: Does your service have any dependencies? Perhaps it is starting too soon, before the key services that support networking (such as "Workstation" and "Network Connections") are fully initialized. Try setting your service to be dependent on these services and see if that solves the problem..
Another simpler alternative is to change your service's startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start). This will have your service started 1-2 minutes after boot, giving the critical services sufficient time to get on their feet beforehand.

A: The Microsoft Windows Service Control Manager controls the state (i.e., started, stopped, paused, etc.) of all installed Windows services. By default, the Service Control Manager will wait 30,000 milliseconds (30 seconds) for a service to respond. Certain configurations, technical restrictions, or performance issues may result in the service taking longer than 30 seconds to start and report ready to the Service Control Manager.
By editing or creating the ServicesPipeTimeout DWORD value, the Service Control Manager timeout period can be overridden, thereby giving the service more time to start up and report ready to the service.
How to make it ?

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*Go to Start > Run > and type regedit

*Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

*With the control folder selected, right click in the pane on the right and select new DWORD Value

*Name the new DWORD: ServicesPipeTimeout

*Right-click ServicesPipeTimeout, and then click Modify

*Click Decimal, type '180000', and then click OK

*Restart the computer

Note: The recommendation above increases the timeout to 180,000 milliseconds (3 minutes), but this may need to be increased further depending on your environment. Keep in mind that increasing this value will likely yield longer server boot times.

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ArtFields® marks its fifth year with bigger cash prizes, an expanded Makers Market, more "meet-the-artist" opportunities and a full lineup of activities, food and musical performances. Lake City's downtown historic district will transform into a town-wide art gallery, with approximately 400 works of art featured in more than 40 venues – from cafés to art galleries. A jury of visual art professionals will choose the winning works, and attendees can vote for their favorite in the People's Choice Awards.


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Donald Butters
June 6, 1925 — March 18, 2015
Donald Gale Butters, 89, passed away peacefully on March 18, 2015 in Morgan, Utah. Dad was born June 6, 1925 in Morgan to Delbert and Norma Cobabe Butters. He was raised in Morgan before joining the military at the age of 18.
Dad served in the Army with the 74th Amphibious Truck Company from 1943 to 1946 and took part in the liberation of the Philippine Islands during the battle of Luzon. He was awarded the American Theater of Operations Service Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Service Ribbon, the Philippine Liberation Service Ribbon Victory Medal, and the Bronze Star. After returning home, he married Donna Bitton on October 7, 1946 and they have been married for 68 years. Dad was a life-long member of the LDS Church.
Dad was fortunate to retire at an early age after thirty-three years of dedicated service at Hill Air Force Base where he worked as a mechanic. Dad and Mom spent many summer days at their vacation home overlooking Flaming Gorge, and they enjoyed many winters in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dad loved hunting, fishing, camping, and horseback riding. In his later years he enjoyed using his handyman skills to help friends and neighbors with home repairs. Dad's smile, his sense of humor, and his big heart will be greatly missed by his wife and family.
He is survived by his wife; his children, Karen (Brent) Nelson, Deanne (Roger) Cowan, Carl (Kandee) Butters, Janet Heiner, Ron (Lynette) Butters; his brother Eldon (Cherri) Butters; his sister Roberta (Thayne) Bohman; fifteen grandchildren; and twenty-seven great-grandchildren. Dad was preceded in death by his mother, Norma (Earl) Williams; his father, Delbert (Edna) Butters; and his sister, Betty Peterson.
Graveside services will be held Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 12 noon at the South Morgan Cemetery. A viewing will be held prior to the services on Saturday from 10:00 to 11:30 am at Walker Mortuary in Morgan (45 West 200 North).
The family would like to specially thank all of the staff at Family Tree Assisted Living and Hospice for Utah for all of their loving care and support.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Donald Butters, please visit our flower store.


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Thoughtful Hendersonians Saved the Day
Weekend Travel Stop and nest awhile in peaceful Henderson
Kentucky Home of John James Audubon shows why he had a passion for birds, nature
Off the beaten path, on banks rising high above the wide Ohio River is a quaint and charming, and largely undiscovered little town, Henderson. Founded in 1796, it was once the richest per capita town in the United States.
At the close of the 19th century, Henderson was a thriving port, exporting rich dark tobacco all over the world. Residents were affluent; they built beautiful homes along exceptionally wide tree-lined streets.
It's a front porch kind of town. Last Sunday morning residents of handsome homes sat in white rockers and dark green wicker, sipping coffee and reading newspapers before church bells tolled from a hefty handful of handsome houses of worship.
Downtown streets bear simple names, Main, First, Second, Third. They're lined with antique shops, a fabric store, a shoe shop with a shoemaker's bench in its dusty plate glass window, a gift shop chock full of treasures and a florist offering fresh cut stems.
In the mix is Alles Brothers Furniture whose founder, Jacob Alles, is credited inventing the rolltop desk in the 1870's. The store is in good company in this historic hamlet.
Accommodations range from standard hotel chains to a few charming B&B 's. We chose L&N, just a block from the Ohio River and right next to a train track. It was quite the find.
Innkeepers Mary Elizabeth and Norris Priest are salt-of-the-earth folks. She provided more tourist information than any Chamber of Commerce could. The inn is listed on the National Register.
It is spotless from stem to stern. The Priests live next door, so guests in the four bedrooms have the run of the place. Victorian furniture fills the parlor and dining room. Bedrooms offer antiques, some with ceiling fans, and most have a stained glass transom over the door.
The heavy oak staircase is lovely, as are the dark hardwoods that run throughout the house.
And just outside our windows, trains ran all night. Far from disturbing, they were a peaceful clacking, transporting us back to simpler times and places.
Also running with the wind are thoroughbreds at the nearby Ellis Park Race Course where horse racing has been conducted continuously sine 1925. The 8,500-seat grandstand offers live racing from early June through Labor Day and inter-track wagering in the off season.
Since 1991 Henderson has hosted an annual W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival the second week in June. Some 20,000 fans come to hear the music of the fields, the river and the docks Handy made famous.
The festival offers Zydeco, red beans and rice on Thursday night each year, and then there's two days of "nothin' but the blues".
The year-round piece de resistance in Henderson is John James Audubon State Park, 700 acres of natural beauty. The park preserves the peaceful woods where Audubon walked and painted.
The first artist or ornithologist to depict life size birds and animals in their natural surroundings, Audubon lived in Henderson for several years. Born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, he grew up in the lush Caribbean before moving to France and ultimately to the States.
His unquenchable passion for nature led him to be a prolific painter of birds and animals of North America. Many of his original oils and watercolors hang in the park's John James Audubon Museum & Nature Center
The center is fascinating with its four galleries which interpret Audubon's life through his original works, personal effects and a world event timeline. Life-sized folio editions of his masterpiece, "Birds of America", are among the treasures. The Museum houses the most extensive collection of Audubon memorabilia in the world.
Family photos, family silver and the tale of a man who strove to achieve is woven through the brilliantly composed galleries. An original copper plate, one of only 17 remaining in this country, is a recent addition to the museum.
In addition to the history and the art the galleries provide, an observatory features huge sparkling glass windows looking into the world of nature he loved and painted. Bird feeders, stations for squirrels and a small pond are just on the other side of the glass.
Binoculars are provided for visitors' use. With them, a cardinal is inches away. A finch flutters. A morning dove alights. Squirrels frolic and a pair of woodchucks, cute enough to pet, scamper about their feeding area. A hummingbird stares back through the glass, poised in mid-air. Monarchs flit effortlessly by as though propelled by gentle breezes.
Also in the beautiful French chateau-like structure is a discovery center for young minds and hands to enjoy as they learn of bird feeding, habitat and behavior. And there's a gift shop, a treasure trove of all things Audubon, but also gardening gifts, jewelry and handmade Kentucky creations from soap to syrup.
The sprawling park offers miles of hiking trails. We chose the Wilderness Lake trail which wound through quiet woods, marsh land and the perimeter of a small lake where frogs jumped and turtles sunned.
Overhead, a bird's wings stirred the quiet early morn.
The pristine park offers camping, a nine-hole golf course, fishing, a beach, pedal boats, tennis and six rustic cabins. Five offer one bedroom; one wheelchair accessible cottage has two bedrooms. All have a fireplace, fully equipped kitchen and a back porch that overlooks a quiet lake.
The park makes for a fantastic day or weekend. Family activities abound.
By VICKI STOUT For The Tennessean Newspaper Sunday, September 1, 2002,
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