Vanderleun has an excellent end of year piece on on a piece of the continent in my neck of the woods – the Mount of the Holy Cross. Interesting and maddening how its meaning and impact have diminished over time.
Read the whole piece, but this pretty well sums it up,
President Herbert Hoover finally designated the site the Mountain of the Holy Cross National Monument in 1929. This lasted as long as the Holy Cross on the mountain itself. Over the years both visitation to the Mountain and the right arm of the cross fell off and the Federal designation was revoked in 1950.
Mount of the Holy Cross postcard
Climate change