Cynthia Gayton

@squizzi3.bsky.social

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Attorney, educator, public historian, documentary filmmaker

Photo from Harpers Ferry West Virginia overlooking the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where John Brown, who studied Toussaint, Vesey and Turner, brought his cause and his men in 1859.
Small pale lavender 6 petal flowering plant flourishes along the Shenandoah. River.
Duck family at the reflecting pool last week.
Music and Harvest bronze cast statute facing Lincoln Memorial
Green lichen on damp sycamore tree trunk which has two holes created by woodpeckers that look like eyes with eyelashes and the lichen looks like bangs.
Yellow daffodils
Wild phlox - pink - smells like chocolate
Photo of morel mushroom in the midst of leaves, rocks and shedded tree bark.
Artemis II krispy Kreme doughnuts. There are only 2. There were 3...
Riverside sun bleached log with gray and white fungi
Several mushrooms "arranged" from largest to smallest on grass with a fence shadow
scanned black and white photo collage of trees stream and river flowers and embroidery - looks more ominous in b&w than in color!
Pale frilly/puffy edged mushrooms with pink centers growing in the exposed roots of a tree.
Murphy Farm, foundation of John Brown’s Fort
Closing lines of "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benét 1928 "If you at last must have a word to say, Say neither, in their way, "It is a deadly magic and accursed," Nor "It is blest," but only "It is here."
Pink lillies - amaryllis belladonna
Cargo ship in the Sound.
Small purple and blue roadside flowers in small red ceramic cup.
Tree trunk covered with fungi
Photo of green space with trees and fog.
Cover of the book “Devil’s Contract” by Ed Simon.
Winchester Evening Star, July 7, 1965 excerpt fromo an article "House to Start Voting on Medicare Amendments"
Field with milkweed in bloom and bumble bees
Mountains in the Shenandoah valley.
Small white mushroom clusters.
Photo of white mushrooms that look like 5 petal flowers.
Light purple iris in bloom. Smells like lavender and rose water flavored cake.
STAMP bldg UMD
Tree trunk covered with fungi
Photo of standalone portable music player
Redbud tree in fuchsia flowers against gray sky
Four women on red hooded robes in front of Washington Monument protesting.
"I close these remarks as I began. If our action shall be in accordance with the principles of justice, liberty, and perfect human equality, no eloquence can adequately portray the greatness and grandeur of the future of the Republic." The Composite Nation. Frederick Douglass, 1869 [https://diamantcourses.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/frederick-douglass-the-composite-nation-1869-click-here1.pdf]
Yellow daffodils surrounded by wineberry canes in the woods
Pen and pastels drawing - two flowers - sepia ink, blue, purple, yellow, dark pink pastels
Small purple crocuses popping up from brown dirt.
Bright yellow daffodils in the middle of dry brown leaves on the ground.
Tree with evidence of woodpecker activity.
Stacked ivory -colored mushrooms inside an tree among leaves in winter
Dog park in NYC