Carriage Post

I tripped around this bloody thing, that's why I took the picture, then found out what it was. Horse drawn carts brought the coffins to the cemetery and often could not negotiate the narrow turns. These cement posts acted as bumpers to keep the art on the road, rather than tipping over and spilling the contents upside down into the dirt.

Travels with Snowbirds 2015, It's all about just pictures

February 13th 2015
February 2015, New Orleans, All About Mardi Gras Pictures This is the first of two blogs I will post with pictures. These are pictures of the Mardi Gras trip. The next one I will work on has the rest of the pictures I took. Due to lack of decent wifi, I was not able to post pictures as I wrote the blogs. Now that I am home, problem resolved. YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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