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Hype for the Future 96/284: State Universities of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, a number of colleges and universities represents the Old South culture of the area. Though the College of William and Mary is the oldest in the Commonwealth and one of the colonial colleges, a number of locales elsewhere provide similar circumstances. Perhaps the most significant of the colleges beyond William and Mary is Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia (UVA), located firmly within the City of Charlottesville.

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Hype for the Future 96/284: State Universities of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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July 4, 1983: The first half-mile from the hut this morning climbed along the crest of the ridge forming the western rim of the ravine. This led to an interesting summit called Blackrock. It rose above the wooded ridge crest, a huge, barren mound of gray boulders smeared liberally with streaks of green paint.

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It is very early in the morning. The clear sky has little color yet and is almost white. There is a lot of mist in the valleys below and mist and haze in the air. We are looking out from atop a mountain over the treetops on the mountainside below us into a maze of deep green mountains and hills and hollows below. With increasing distance, they take on a bluish tint from the haze and mist. The more distant mountains we can see are light blue gray ghosts.

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June 26, 1983: By the time I finished nursing my shins down the long descent to Jennings Creek, Alan had been there for about an hour. The bank of Jennings Creek was a nice temporary haven from the rigors of late-June backpacking.

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Standing next to a body of water, in the shade of a large tree leaning out over the water, its leaves and branches taking up most of the image. Though the leaves we can see glimpses of a bright baby blue sky with puffy white clouds. Beneath them we see some shallows with lots of floating algae and lily pads. To the right along the shore are tall water grasses rustling in a soft breeze and then the start of the surrounding forest.

George Steffanos

@GSteffanos@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

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