My husband went looking for deer trails today with a good friend of his, a bowhunter…
… for next winter’s deer season… He took photographs…
While I stayed home roasting a turkey, watching kids, cleaning house…
… all the mundane things that a wife and mom kind of tires of doing
… sometimes…
But I had a good day, too… so did the kids…
My husband took me here, before, with our little boy…
This is a special place to visit, to see…
This is Fort de Chartres, named in honor of Louis duc de Chartres, son of the regent of France.
France claimed the Illinois Country, beginning in 1673, an undefined area that extended from Lake Michigan and Superior to the Ohio and Missouri Rivers…
The Illinois Country was removed from Canadian jurisdiction and made a part of Louisiana, turned over to the Company of the Indies, a commercial enterprise chartered by King Louis XV…
French leaders built a military presence, a foundation constructing a wooden fort on the Mississippi River 18 miles north of Kaskaskia. The fort was completed in 1720… later, leading up to the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years’ War.
… My turkey turned out just fine.
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