Training Log Archive: barb

To the Blue Hills and back, and then to the store for groceries. Through Roxbury, Mattapan, Milton. Signature sound: crushed beer can blowing along the street. Saw someone on a Bike Friday. Stopped by the Dunkin Donuts on 138 on the way to Houghton's Pond.

Orienteering training set up by Jeff Saeger in the Blue Hills. Dave and I alternated memorizing legs and navigating them. Very fun. Faster than I'd have gone on my own, especially near the beginning. Weather was raw, which was fine for orienteering and biking.

Highly recommended book: "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation"

Tonight I'm looking forward to a book discussion club ("Suite Francaise").

I am starting to work on making reservations for a family canoe trip in Algonquin Park, Ontario, for this summer. I used to go on trips like this in the Boundary Waters & Quetico in northern Minnesota & Canada every summer as a kid, and I'm psyched to finally be able to introduce my kids to it. Afterward, we're going to drive for 3 days east to go to the orienteering in the Bay of Fundy.

C • BWCA 15

David's homework: Design for a Holocaust Memorial





Here, at the front of the monument, is the small gate labeled "Arbiet Macht Frei" (Work Will Make You Free). This slogan was used on the gate to one of the German labor camps in the Holocaust.



Here is the whole monument from the front. You can see the incinerator chimneys in the middle, the maze-like passageways on the front and sides, the strange blocks in the back, and just a bit of the dome of ashes. Reaching to each corner are four segments of railroad track symbolizing the trains that were used to ship Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and others to the concentration camps.



Here is a birds-eye view of the monument. The maze represents the trickiness of being in hiding or running and trying not to end up in the hands of the Nazis. A few dead ends are marked with pictures symbolizing different events that happened in the Holocaust.



Here are two examples of the pictures at different dead ends of the maze. Above, a synagogue is burning in the fires of Kristallnacht.



In this picture, a woman and two children are cowering in front of a Nazi soldier.



Here are the incinerator towers. The tallest one reaches to a monstrous hight of 86 feet. They are built in the middle of the monument to symbolize that they were the one dead end most concentration camp prisoners ran into.



Finally, here is the "pile of ashes" at the rear of the monument. It is supposed to represent the ashes of all the dead who were burned instead of buried.

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