Debbie Ransom

Retired, some days just plain tired again. GamerID - OleLadyWho1. Live, love, laugh, pray. Cradle Catholic.
Small lives matter!

[Debbie Ransom @LiveInGramma]

Almost old enough to move to the big girl coop!

[C.S. McDonald @CSMcDonald7]

Step onto a cruise ship with Fiona and Det Landry-the weather is fair, but sailing is bumpy when a country singer goes overboard-with help!
⚓️BON VOYAGE TO MURDER https://t.co/nHQv2ZyENO
🎧It's on #Audible too> https://t.co/pJhw29D90s

[Debbie Ransom @LiveInGramma]

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[Rob Fasone @cigar150]

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[Patricia 🇺🇸 @1109Patricia]

The Undercroft beneath the Lincoln Memorial and it’s a fascinating story that’s suddenly in the news because the public can finally see it.

The Lincoln Memorial sits on what used to be swampy, marshy land (the Potomac Flats) that was reclaimed from the river through dredging and filling. When construction started in 1914, engineers knew the soft soil couldn’t support the massive marble structure and the huge statue of Lincoln without it sinking.

Their solution was to excavate down roughly 40–50 feet and install about 120–122 massive concrete pillars (sometimes called piers or piles). These were driven all the way down to solid bedrock. The pillars support the entire weight of the memorial above. The huge open space they created underneath, a cavernous, roughly 50,000-square-foot structural chamber (nearly twice the size of the memorial itself) is called the Undercroft.

For over 100 years this space stayed hidden from the public. It was basically a giant concrete forest of towering pillars holding everything up, with some original construction graffiti still visible on them and even stalactites from water seeping through over time.

The National Park Service has turned part of it (about 15,000 square feet) into a new museum and exhibit space. You can now walk in and see the actual massive concrete supports that were put in because of the swampy ground, along with interactive exhibits about the engineering challenges, the memorial’s construction, and its powerful role in American history (including civil rights moments like Marian Anderson’s concert and MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech).
It officially opens to the public on June 25, 2026, with timed-entry tickets required (free admission, small service fee for advance reservations). It’s already getting a lot of attention in the media as one of Washington’s “best-kept secrets” finally revealed.

[C.S. McDonald @CSMcDonald7]

Readers love the newest #FionaQuinnMysteries ! The suspects are called to order when Judge Kiss is found dead in chambers! Fiona & hubby, Det. Landry are knee deep in secrets & scandal!
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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

252 years ago today, the British Empire closed the busiest port in North America to teach one colony a lesson, and accidentally turned thirteen colonies into one country.

On December 16, 1773, a few dozen Bostonians had thrown 342 chests of East India Company tea into the harbor. The damages came to roughly £9,659. Lord North, the Prime Minister, decided to make an example. Parliament passed the Boston Port Act. King George III signed it on March 31, 1774. It took effect at dawn on June 1.

The Royal Navy moved warships into Boston Harbor and dropped anchor. Every dock was sealed. No ship could enter or leave. Not a barrel of flour, not a load of firewood, not a letter. The port would stay closed until Boston paid the East India Company in full and promised to behave.

The intent was to isolate Massachusetts and force her neighbors to watch her starve.

What happened instead is one of the strangest political miracles in modern history.

Down in Williamsburg, a 31 year old burgess named Thomas Jefferson and a few friends, including Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, pulled a dusty old book off the shelf of the House of Burgesses library, a record of how the Long Parliament had once handled a tyrant, and proposed that the entire colony of Virginia observe June 1, 1774 as a day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer" in solidarity with Boston.

The Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, dissolved the House two days later for treason. The burgesses simply walked across the street to the Raleigh Tavern and kept meeting.

June 1 came. In Virginia, every Anglican church was draped in black. The bells tolled all day. Plantation owners shut their doors. Jefferson wrote later that "the effect of the day through the whole colony was like a shock of electricity."

The same shock ran through every colony south of New England. Wagon trains of food started rolling toward Boston from as far away as Charleston. The Marblehead fishermen offered to give the Boston merchants the use of their docks for free. A Quaker miller in Pennsylvania sent a hundred barrels of flour. Israel Putnam personally drove a herd of sheep from Connecticut to feed the city.

Three months later, 56 delegates from twelve colonies sat down together in Philadelphia. It was called the First Continental Congress. None of them had ever met under one roof before.

Parliament wanted to punish a city. It created a nation.

252 years ago today, in a harbor full of Royal Navy frigates, the American Revolution stopped being a Massachusetts problem.

[Debbie Ransom @LiveInGramma]

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[C.S. McDonald @CSMcDonald7]

Woo-Hoo! Summers here! Time to grab a cold drink and solve a mystery or two with Fiona and the gang! 14 charming mysteries--dive into the #FionaQuinnMysteries this weekend! 😎
Here's the 🔗to all 14> https://t.co/o6oopseBto 🏝️

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[Tony DiOrio @TonyDiOrio]

WOW - this is the Cascading Waterfall at Meridian Hill Park in Washington DC.

Completed in 1936, it was designed in a grand neoclassical/Italianate style by landscape architect George Burnap and architect Horace Peaslee and is the one of the longest cascading fountains in North America

America the Beautiful.