After traveling through southern Illinois I stopped in New Harmony, Ind.New Harmony is a historic town on the Wabash River in Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana, 15 miles (24 km) north of Mount Vernon, Indiana, the county seat. New Harmony, formerly named Harmony, was founded by the Harmony Society, headed by German immigrant George Rapp (actually Johann Georg Rapp) in 1814. This was the second of three towns built by the pietist, communal German religious group, known as Harmonists, Harmonites or Rappites. The other two towns founded by the Harmonites were Harmony, Pennsylvania (their first town), and Economy, Pennsylvania (now called Ambridge, Pennsylvania.) When the society decided to move back to Pennsylvania around 1824, they sold the 30,000 acres (121 km²) of land and buildings to Robert Owen, the Welsh utopian thinker and social reformer, and to William Maclure for $150,000, who then changed the name from "Harmony" to "New Harmony." Owen recruited residents to his model community, but a number of factors led to an early breakup of the communitarian experiment.
Labels: common good, historic, history, Indiana, New Harmony, socialism, Utopian
These are images from Cave In Rock State Park in Southern Illinois.
Labels: fall foliage, Illinois, natural beauty, nature, parks, scenery, Southern Illinois
Chris and Penny Sitler celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary with friends and family at The Guyer Opera House in Lewisville, Ind. It is where they met.
Labels: anniversary, Guyer Opera House, Indiana, Lewisville
After I took the photos in the previous gallery of Southern Illinois I found myself at Cave-In-Rock, which is a village in Hardin County, Illinois.
There is a state park there. It was getting dark and I was running out of gas. I checked into a cabin in the park over looking the Ohio River.
The principal feature of Cave in Rock is a 55-foot (17 m)-wide cave on the Ohio River. Cave-in-Rock was originally a stronghold for outlaws including the bandit Logan Belt, Philip Alston the Counterfeiter, the pirate Samuel Mason, and the Sturdivant Gang.
I took the above picture from the back deck of the cabin the next morning.
I have more photos from this trip that I will post in another gallery later.
Labels: Cave in Rock, Illinois, nature, Ohio River, scenery
Rain kept me from hiking and camping as I had originally planned during a trip to Southern Illinois. However the rain did not keep me from enjoying some stunningly beautiful scenery and fall foliage. This gallery includes photos from Giant City State Park, Makanda and Alto Pass, Illinois.
Labels: Autumn, CCC, fall foliage, Giant City State Park, Illinois, nature, scenery, Southern Illinois
