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Photo of the day: November 2011
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Spooky. Now I realize why had such an aversion to the school library in my younger years!
Here's my POTD for today:
Hotel Finlen
This is the last one from my walk through Butte a while back.
So, after taking several shots of this hotel I wanted to know a little more, so I googled it on my phone, emailed a link to myself and moved on with my day. Later that night I read the history of the building from their website. It's mildly interesting but didn't answer the question of why put the "grandest hotel in the west" in Butte. It didn't make any sense.
About three weeks ago I did a similar walk in Anaconda, MT, about 30 miles west of Butte. The town had my attention because of the giant smokestack that you can see from miles away(this shot is from 6-7 miles). I enjoyed my walk through town and will be posting those pictures next. I still didn't make the connection between these two towns. Then a friend, who was born in Anaconda, sent me a simple link about the history of the town and that set me off on a several hour long journey of researching these two towns and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company(ACM).
It turns out that there is an incredible history surrounding these two towns and ACM. The Hotel Finlen is in Butte because Butte was one of the richest cities in the world (aka, "The Richest Hill on Earth") for decades due to the copper being pulled out of the ground beneath Butte and processed in Anaconda and Great Falls. There were intense political, business and labor battles that occurred in these towns. The story started in the 1870's and is still playing out today with the environmental cleanup, it is the largest superfund site in the U.S.
I have ordered several books on the topic and my Amazon wishlist has grown by quite a bit over the last couple weeks. I'm really looking forward to returning to these towns to make more photo's and hopefully learn more about them from some of the people who were there for it.
Hotel Finlen
This is the last one from my walk through Butte a while back.
So, after taking several shots of this hotel I wanted to know a little more, so I googled it on my phone, emailed a link to myself and moved on with my day. Later that night I read the history of the building from their website. It's mildly interesting but didn't answer the question of why put the "grandest hotel in the west" in Butte. It didn't make any sense.
About three weeks ago I did a similar walk in Anaconda, MT, about 30 miles west of Butte. The town had my attention because of the giant smokestack that you can see from miles away(this shot is from 6-7 miles). I enjoyed my walk through town and will be posting those pictures next. I still didn't make the connection between these two towns. Then a friend, who was born in Anaconda, sent me a simple link about the history of the town and that set me off on a several hour long journey of researching these two towns and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company(ACM).
It turns out that there is an incredible history surrounding these two towns and ACM. The Hotel Finlen is in Butte because Butte was one of the richest cities in the world (aka, "The Richest Hill on Earth") for decades due to the copper being pulled out of the ground beneath Butte and processed in Anaconda and Great Falls. There were intense political, business and labor battles that occurred in these towns. The story started in the 1870's and is still playing out today with the environmental cleanup, it is the largest superfund site in the U.S.
I have ordered several books on the topic and my Amazon wishlist has grown by quite a bit over the last couple weeks. I'm really looking forward to returning to these towns to make more photo's and hopefully learn more about them from some of the people who were there for it.
The "giant smokestack" is the smelter for all of the ore pulled out of the ground. It is said that you could drive a car around the diameter of the smelter stack opening at the top-the stack was that thick. At one time, 1/4th of all of the world's cooper came from the mines of Butte.
Here's my donation for the day:
FDR Monument, Washington, DC
Here's my donation for the day:
FDR Monument, Washington, DC
I think you should include the all of the words when photographing something like this. I looked them up...
"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."
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That star is likely Jupiter.
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