Karens Road

We took a different route on our way home from our son’s home in Oxford, Ohio yesterday. He graduated with his master’s degree in communications and we attended the beautiful graduation ceremony. Our different route showed us a few things I had not noticed before. Richmond has a beautiful statue in the Glen Miller Park. In commemoration of pioneer mothers of the covered wagon days, this statue is the ninth link in the Great National Shrine erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution along the National Road Trail. There are only 12 statues linked along U.S. 40 from Cumberland, Maryland, to Upland, California. The Richmond statue stands at the entrance of Glen Miller Park, at U.S. 40 East and North 22nd Street. This statue was restored in 2005 and commemorates the westward flow of pioneers along the Cumberland Road through the city.

I am in awe of the pioneers and how they overcame the magnificent struggles to conquer an unknown land. Their struggles have given us so much as we are now a diversified country. Can you imagine being a mother, traveling with a baby and toddlers across a vast unknown land? Many families died along the way. The ones who made it were able to start a new life, full of hope and dreams. I only think I would have been one of the ones to reach the new land. Do you think you would have made it?

You can find more pictures and information about the Madonna’s of the Trail statues by visiting Route 40 Net.
Source: Waynet, Inc.