Tuesday, September 13, 2016

ABBOTT LAWRENCE'S MARCH ACROSS THE USA AND OUR GLOBE, NOVEMBER 2010

WE followed Abbott's paths across the USA in our time, 2010 .





Excerpt from Shawn Colvin's song "Orion in the Sky", which exemplifies the famous, Abbott Lawrence, and his development of business, politics, industry, railroads and education (Kansas University, in Lawrence, Kansas)  and more across the USA during the  1830's and 1840's and much of our good of our USA, thereafter:

Maybe somewhere in the southern hemisphere
There could be room for all this love
Where they've saved a place for innocence
And what is still mysterious
And their dreaming time
They're dreaming time
Because we've broken down the wilderness
And we've blackened up the skies
And we cry 'cause we've got no vision left
While the smoke gets in our eyes
And there's no more time
And the dream is dying
But I love you baby
And I know you and I
Can find a way to heaven
Just like Orion in the sky
He's the long lost hero
He's the guardian of your son
But can he protect us baby
From all the sad things we've done
Now I know there's no sense in hiding
And we can't escape this war
And I have made my peace with dying
Down here on this killing floor
In a world gone blind
Where there's