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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer &#187; View Point</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart&#039;s Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>In Beauty We Walked</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/04/20/in-beauty-we-walked</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Some of the most dramatic land in the world is located on Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, Arizona, and yesterday we felt privileged to walk through a portion of that land. 
Over the years we&#8217;ve read books and articles that have quoted parts or all of a Navajo prayer.  Upon returning we looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear or Procreation! What Might the Monster Rock Snake Represent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Five-hundred years from now – after man has rebounded from a devastating decline in population associated with much tragic and social unrest &#8212; archaeologists will reemerge to wonder about those who lived in the distant past. (Come on, play along for a minute.)
They begin by excavating, and because deserts are always so productive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas at Bill &amp; Larry&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/15/christmas-at-bill-larrys</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Snow covered the Vallecito Mountains as we made our drive to Agua Calienta to see our friends Bill and Larry.

 

Janie and I meet the two men about four years ago and discovered that we shared similar interests and an interest in acquiring skills we all admired.  Larry is a gourmet cook, Bill a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Though but an Infant, I Remember Pearl Harbor</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/07/though-but-an-infant-i-remember-pearl-harbor</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Exactly 70 years ago  I was  at Pearl Harbor and though I was only a year old and obviously have but little memory of the events that unfolded that horrible day in Hawaii, I have  heard the story from my parents who certainly do remember the horrors.
It was a Sunday, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curtailing the World’s Most Popular Pastime Is Not Politically Popular</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/11/27/curtailing-the-world%e2%80%99s-most-popular-pastime-is-not-politically-popular</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Traveling &#8220;THE 5,&#8221;  &#8221; THE 10&#8243; and  &#8220;THE 210&#8243;  in northwest California this past week has driven home the meaning of overpopulation in a way no place else in America has ever done.  From the moment we entered the northern part of this the nation’s second largest state this old country boy from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry Secret! Airstream – and “the Worst Case of Filiform Corrosion Ever”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: After almost three full months of negotiating with our insurance company we have finally reached a settlement regarding damage to our Airstream Travel Trailer.
To make an extremely long story short, our trailer was blasted by a direct hit of magnesium chloride this winter resulting in what the industry calls &#8220;filiform corrosion.&#8221;
Damage was extensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana’s Deer Lodge Prison.  Is Incarceration a Crap Shoot?</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/07/30/montana%e2%80%99s-deer-lodge-prison-is-incarceration-a-crap-shoot</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/07/30/montana%e2%80%99s-deer-lodge-prison-is-incarceration-a-crap-shoot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Is life little more than a crap shoot?  That’s the question you may well be asking yourself if you tour the old prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. That facility &#8212; now replaced by a nearby more modern facility &#8212; once handled some of the nation’s most incorrigible criminals.
Jerry  Myles was one such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Montana’s Big Hole Battlefield</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/07/08/lessons-from-montana%e2%80%99s-big-hole-battlefield</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Several nights ago I sat outside the framework of a tipi located at Montana’s Big Hole Battlefield. The tipi is thought to be located at the exact site where Chief Joseph slept one night while attempting to elude an army initially lead by General Howard.
Howard was attempting to force this band of Nez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Field Where Camas Grows</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/06/27/in-a-field-where-camas-grows</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
©Bert Gildart: In a flowering field of camas, prairie smoke and bistort, tipi poles stand today like skeletons all reminiscent now of a great tragedy – of a particularly ugly time in America’s history.

 

The skeletons remind the sympathetic that on an August morning in 1887, before the sun had even risen, approximately 170 soldiers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson From the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/04/15/lesson-from-the-civil-war</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Officially, the Civil War began 150 years ago on April 12, 1861, but anyone somewhat  knowledgeable about American history knows that several earlier dates might be ascribed to its beginning.

 
There was the infamous John Brown Rebellion, which Robert E. Lee squelched as a Union officer in 1859.  But even before that, history has [...]]]></description>
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