Cache on the Rise

Placed by Shell Leavers in 2014, Cache on the Rise will bring us past the resting place of President #20.

Traffic is light on a sleepy Saturday as the first Arctic front nudges a nose into central Ohio. Battled by warm air lingering from the Gulf, fierce winds blow us toward Cleveland.

A quick stop for gas gives the muggles a chance to do some muggling.

Our GPS lands at Lakeview. The type of place where you really want to pay attention to closing time.

A Civil War veteran, President Garfield advocated for fully integrated citizenship for all Black Americans. He believed that, in the oppressor relationship, the guilt, hypocrisy, quiet resistance and open rebellion, increasing violence, and social degradation, wronged and destroyed both parties.

President Garfield governed four months. He was shot in a railway station, since Presidents at that time traveled like everyone else. Three months later, he died.

The Constitution, just one hundred years old, held the government together. A legal framework, constructed for a still undefined country, carried 38 states and numerous territories through this Presidential assassination.

Our GPS wanders to a quiet spot. Swans swim in the pond below.

Stay grounded, says the hint.

Slowly the maple leaves put on their red pajamas. While we battle the snow, they will be tucked into their warm winter’s bed. How gently they encourage us that spring will unfurl the gold of leaves already waiting.