- Princeton, NJ
- New York City, NY
- Philadelphia, PA
- Amish country in PA
- Gettysburg, PA
- Mount Vernon, VA
- Washington, DC
- Annapolis, MD
- Williamsburg, VA
- Jamestown, VA
- Yorktown, VA
- Virginia Beach, VA
- Dulles Airport, VA
In August of 2005 we flew to Newark, New Jersey, and rented a mini-van to drive to Princeton to see my oldest daughter who was finishing an internship.
I am grateful for those families who are missionaries or for those who go on mission trips instead of vacations. I respect various different convictions people may have about such priorities. I pray that our family trip was more than a vacation and that our Lord would bring fruit from who we talked to and what we saw and learned.
There were many things we observed that provoked me to examine the complexities of being in the world but not of the world.
- Princeton, NJ:
Nassau Inn, Nassau Hall
John Witherspoon statue: President of Princeton, The only clergyman and only college president to sign the Declaration of Independence. Presbyterian. James Madison and Aaron Burr were among his students.
Princeton University Chapel
Einstein’s House
“Beautiful Mind” setting
Cemetery including Aaron Burr
Princeton Theological Seminary
- New York City, NY:
Strawberry Fields Memorial The Obelisk: “Cleopatra’s Needle” in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Obelisks – A Wikipedia Article
Simon Bolivar Monument
Lincoln Center
Columbus Circle
Empire State Building
WTC Site – Ground Zero
Trinity Church building & Cemetery including Alexander Hamilton
Wall Street & NYSE
Federal Hall site where George Washington took his oath of office as the first President
Fraunce’s Tavern site of George Washington’s farewell to his officers
Battery Park and view of Statue of Liberty
United Nations
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Rockefeller Center & Prometheus statue
Times Square
Phantom of the Opera
- Philadelphia, PA:
Liberty Bell
Independence Hall
- Lancaster County, PA:
home to Amish & Mennonites, both of Anabaptist heritage
- Gettysburg, PA:
The Battlefield: Seminary Ridge, Cemetery Ridge
The site of Lincoln’s Address: “Four Score and seven years ago…”
- Mount Vernon, VA:
The home: Key to the Bastille from Lafayette, bust of John Paul Jones
The tomb
- Washington, DC:
White House
Lafayette Square
Organization of American States
Washington Monument: An obelisk
Lincoln Memorial: The Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural Address
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum: The Spirit of St. Louis
American History Museum: Start Spangled Banner
Natural History Museum: Hope Diamond
Capitol Building: The Apotheosis of Washington painted fresco on the dome ceiling.
Library of Congress
Supreme Court
National Archives: Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights
National Art Gallery: Ginevra de’ Benci by Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper by Salvador Dali
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
- Annapolis, MD:
The town
The Naval Academy: Bancroft Hall, Chapel and Crypt of John Paul Jones
- Williamsburg, VA:
Governor’s Palace
The Capitol: House of Burgesses – Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington
Raleigh Tavern
Bruton Parish Episcopal Church building: George Washington’s pew
- Jamestown, VA:
First permanent English settlement: John Smith, Pocahontas
Church building tower
- Yorktown, VA:
The Battlefield: The cannon and Lafayette
The town
- Virginia Beach, VA:
Atlantic Ocean
- Dulles Airport, VA:
Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
The Flight Home – Brother in Christ from Auburn who’s son is at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg , PA on “Seminary Ridge”.