Urban hike

Tuesday
A great day today. In the morning I was at my knitting group, then Roger and I drove downtown to attend the weekly Music Live at Lunch at Christ Church cathedral. This was the first in person one we had attended since early last year. They had been streaming them, but for some reason it didn’t seem to fit into our schedule, and then we just got out of the habit. However, I discovered yesterday they were back to doing them live, as well as streaming them, so we went. Unfortunately, there are only another two before they stop for the summer. They provide a wide variety of music - today’s was a husband and wife duo, she played violin, and he played violin, guitar or banjo, and they played a wide range of music, from Renaissance to Celtic, Brazilian style guitar music, and others.They were really excellent, and it was most enjoyable. In pre-Covid times, they used to serve lunch, which you could take in on a tray ,and eat during the concert. Due to Covid they are not doing that at present, though you are still free to take your own lunch in. We decided to wait until it was over and go out for lunch. We were hoping for our favourite Mexican downtown restaurant, but unfortunately they’re still not opening for lunch, so we ended up going to The Yard House near the river. Afterwards, we went for an urban hike, crossing the Ohio to Kentucky on the Roebling Suspension bridge, then walking through Newport and across the Licking River, which flows into the Ohio River and then back to the Ohio side on the “Purple People Bridge”. The central picture is a general view of downtown from Kentucky, including the Reds baseball stadium, which I have also included in the upper right shot. The sculptures on the bottom row are on the left Chief Little Turtle, and on the right JohnJames Audubon. Chief Little Turtle was the leader of the Miami tribe, indigenous to the Ohio, Indiana and Michigan regions. He was fiercely defendant of their land, and was involved in a number of battles with the young American nation as it expanded westward. However, attrition caught up with the natives, finally surrendering to the Americans in 1795, and despite his combative nature, Little Turtle was ultimately instrumental in coming to peace with the United States. A nearby plaque reads
“After the Indians were defeated at Fallen Timbers in 1794, Little Turtle joined signing the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. He declared, "I am the last to sign it and will be the last to break it." He kept his word.”
John James Audubon was best known as a painter of birds and most notably for his series called the Birds of America. Audubon came to the northern Kentucky area in 1819, and made many drawings near this place. It was the force of circumstances prior to and during his stay in the Cincinnati- Kentucky area which converted him from an amateur to professional artist. He left Cincinnati in October of 1829 and embarked on his mammoth project to record the birds of North America which was first published in 1838.. The blossom in the upper central photo is the Black Locust tree. We saw several Canada goose families as we walked along the levee on the Newport side.

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