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Robert does me the HUGE favor of picking up my boats and taking them to his house the day before we leave for Covington
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Robert's stalwart and faithful Ford Ranger loaded with my boats
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what a pal! - photo by Linda Reeder
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Linda Reeder's beautiful study of Robert's truck loaded with my canoe
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10:00 A.M. Saturday we assemble at Robert's house by Opequon Creek to begin our journey to the Allegheny Highlands - Neil Laggan in this shot.
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our convoy of two trucks loaded with four kayaks and one canoe
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at a rest stop along I-81 in the Shenandoah Valley: l-r it's Neil Laggan, Bill Carrigan and Robert Braun. The four of us will join my brother Henry at Covington.
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we arrive at Joyner's Budget Motel in Covington and join Henry who is waiting and has already made friends with the daughter of the owner
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our first foray to find the put-in for our next-morning launch takes us up Warm Springs Mountain with an excellent view of the great Allegheny Highlands
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Falling Spring Falls
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Falling Spring Falls
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Falling Spring Falls
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originally the falls had tumbled 200 feet - but a lime company relocated the flow and it now only falls 80 feet
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our crew, Robert, me, Neil & Bill - Henry took the picture
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selfie at the put-in
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this is the Indian Draft put-in on a sunny afternoon - the guy in the picture is a stranger - it would be gray and rainy next morning when we launched
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after finding the put-in and take-out we were hungry and found a good Mexican restaurant
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after the meal Henry drove us to the heart of historic Covington which we found blocked to traffic and eerily empty
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a beautiful downtown that was so quiet and empty it seems like a movie set
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we learned from a policeman that the street was blocked so the high school seniors could parade their prom fashions before the dance their parents had organized
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another shot taken by Henry - this in front of the jail which is beside the courthouse
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the United Daughters of the Confederacy strike again
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the Allegheny County Courthouse
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is it copper or paint? we couldn't decide
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"colored" dead are listed separately and last
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a pretty little church opposite the Courthouse in the cordoned-off blocks of downtown
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door of that church - some pretty spectacular iron work on the hinges
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another building along those two blocks
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detail of that same building
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soon the prom-bound high school seniors began arriving in their finery accompanied by parents and dates
