> It is impossible for the emotions arising from the
> sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here: so
> beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing
> as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator
> is really indescribable!

Thanks, Jurretta Heckscher, for this news, and thanks, Lewis Burruss, for 
calling to mind that passage from Thomas Jefferson.

Here's additional thanks, meant ironically for people beyond this forum, 
just as the above is meant sincerely for people within it: And concerning 
this particular national treasure under Virginia's stewardship, thanks, 
leaders in Virginia, for not sacrificing its sense of place to parochial, 
self-entitled special interests.

The struggle for Virginia's national treasure of Fort Monroe is entering yet 
another phase, Gov. McDonnell having approved in December, without 
amendments, the overdevelopment plan that Pollyannas had hoped he would not. 
But no bulldozers have arrived yet, and indeed land sales in the disputed 
part (colored red at FortMonroeNationalPark.org) are still, for the moment, 
illegal, and neither the National Parks Conservation Association nor the 
Virginian-Pilot will be relenting, whatever the quisling (for this issue) 
National Trust for Historic Preservation may do next. In this forum, more to 
come sometime soon on this now eight-year struggle, if I may continue to be 
indulged about it here. 

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