A flying visit (via Air Canada's direct route between Toronto and Richmond) produced some wonderful Christmas scenes just before a big snow hit the city. As a photographer in the Olympus Visionary program, I've posted a selection of these in two albums with complete shot details at www.facebook.com/getolympus. Christmas cheer to everyone!
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Please note: All text and photos copyright Gary Crallé. Not to be used without permission. All photos taken with Olympus DSLR cameras and lenses.
December 26, 2009
Lighting the official Christmas tree at the Capitol building is an annual tradition in Richmond. 1776 Declaration of Independence signatory and master architect Thomas Jefferson chose the Maison Carée, a Christian Roman temple in Nîmes, France, as the model for this, Virginia’s first permanent capital building. The exquisite structure has recently been placed on a "U.S. Tentative World Heritage List".
August 3, 2009
Harry S. Truman: “The buck stops here!”
Please note: All text and photos copyright Gary Crallé. Not to be used without permission. All photos taken with Olympus DSLR cameras and lenses.
Harry S. Truman talked the talk. Now visitors to his boyhood town can walk the walk.
Independence, Missouri, an elbow’s length from downtown Kansas City, is where Truman grew up and cut his political teeth. A compact walk through history traces Harry’s “morning constitutionals” and even crosses paths with Frank James, outlaw brother of Jesse James. Information and brochures are available from the tourism office www.visitindependence.com toll free 1- 800-748-7323).
Did former U.S. President Harry Truman put Barack Obama in the White House? It could be argued he did by starting the ball rolling with Executive Order 9981 which desegregated U.S. armed forces in July, 1948. History is a chain of events linked by surprising cause and effect.
Born in 1884, the Missouri farm boy went on to become the 33rd president of the USA (1945 - 1953). Harry Truman was the last president without a university education, bringing instead a rural notion of common sense to a complex office. Faced with some of the most difficult decisions of that era, he set policies which have shaped the world.
Tumultuous times brought the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine, Korean War, McCarthyism, recognition of Israel & Pakistan, and creation of NATO.
It was the Cold War fight against communism which largely defined Truman’s presidency. By signing the National Security Act of July 26, 1947, he created today’s Department of Defence, National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA.
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