A very southern past

Today we went on a tour of a revolutionary war site - the Alamance Battleground. There are a bunch of these places scattered about. What made this one particularly interesting was their giant cojones.
One of their monuments suggests that this was the first battle of the revolution (being from MA, I put up with that for all of about 2 seconds)...

Another changes the historic spelling of our adoptive state...

On the way home again, we stopped for this photo op...

Oh, and totally unrelated. But interesting to me and it's my blog, Mr. has a Michael Landon (circa 1985) hairdo today...