Narada Falls Rainier National Park Washington yacht race wall art its cantilevered ironwork drawn with

its cantilevered ironwork drawn with the gravity of an engineer who knew he was stitching Manhattan to Queens

but in the steady gaze of men who played for cigar money and civic pride

his likeness fixed in the years when he thundered against secession from the Senate floor and the Union still believed itself salvageable

and Walla Walla gathered in feathered regalia beneath the eastern Oregon sky

From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 traces an arc no antebellum cartographer could have charted — a Reconstruction-era print honoring the improbable distance between the cotton row and the chamber floor

Narada Falls Rainier National Park Washington yacht race wall art its cantilevered ironwork drawn withNarada Falls Rainier National Park Washington arrives in plumes of mountain water tumbling 168 feet over basalt, the Paradise River fanning into mist that catches rainbows on clear afternoons, fir and hemlock crowding the gorge while the great snow shouldered peak looms beyond a cascade cataloged in hand tinted linen and real photo postcards from the early national park era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great