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A Thomas Paine deist and a Franklin constitutionalist. I believe in accountability for all. Apply Equal Justice Under the Law with no exceptions for the rich or those who attempt to usurp power. Photography now a vocation... https://charlesroy.smugmug.com

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chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 2d

Ghosts of our past...

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From Ellis Island... The Gateway for many of our immigrant forebears - The remnants of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal in Jersey City, NJ

#photography #CentralRRNJ #immigration #ellisisland #jerseycity #newjersey

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 2d

The last harvest...

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#photography #cranberry #cranberrybog #BarkerBogs #harvest #redbrook #ADM #Plymouth #Massachusetts

The Barker Bogs are being sold and decommissioned... TBA Buzzards Bay Coalition

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 3d

Palmers Island and Lighthouse

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#photography #AcushnetRiver #NewBedford #NewBedfordHarbor #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, Sadie... Redbrook Plymouth has sand and plenty of it!

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#photography #sand #Redbrook #Plymouth #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 7d

Gotta love Marstons Mills grass Airfield... it just feels right...

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#photography #aviation #aeroplane #capecodairfield #marstonsmills #CapeCod #Massachusetts #WacoUPF7 #DC3

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 9d

Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Jack's Hack"

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#photography #Boeing #B29 #NEAM #WindsorLocks #Connecticut

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 11d

A need for speed - X-Planes...

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#Photography #NMUSAF #sr71 #X15 #XB70 #wrightpattersonAFB #Dayton #Ohio

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoyed the fall cranberry harvest... a waning Massachusetts tradition

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#photography #cranberry #bogs #harvest #barkerbogs #Redbrook #Plymouth #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 16d

Awaiting an Amtrak arrival... a retrospective photograph

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#Photography #trains #Amtrak #NewHaven #Connecticut #NortheastCorridor

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 17d

The JRS-1 is the military version of the Sikorsky S-43 "Baby Clipper."

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This amphibious seaplane is the only aircraft at NASM that was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

#Sikorsky #FlyingBoat #JRS1 #S43 #Clipper #NASM #UdvarHazy #Chantilly #Virginia

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 17d

A penny for his thoughts today...

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#photography #strength #resolve #compassion #peace #freedom #humanequality #Lincoln #dystopiantimes

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 18d

Great Egrets on Canal tidal inlet

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#photography #greategret #birds #audubon #CapeCodCanal #Bourne #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 20d

Mystic Seaport...

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#photography #mysticseaport #Mystic #CharlesWMorgan #Connecticut

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 24d

Football at the Yale Bowl must have been fun in those days...

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Shoreline Trolley Museum - East Haven - Branford, car 401 - Jones 4-axle motor car.

#photography #trolley #ShorelineTrolleyMuseum #yale #yalebowl #NewHaven #Connecticut

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 25d

The Motor Yacht Marie on the Cape Cod Canal...

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This yacht was built in 1930 as Acania for Silent Screen Star Constance Bennett. In WWII it served with the US Navy as a submarine echo finder.

#Photography #CapeCodCanal #Bourne #buzzardsbay #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 26d

The early bird catches the worm, no, the peanut...

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#photography #birds #titmouse #audubon #Redbrook #Plymouth #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 28d

Engine # 3025 - A Mikado 2-8-2 of the Valley Railroad - Essex, Connecticut

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#photography #railroad #steam #valleyrailroad #Essex #Connecticut

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · 29d

Morning Glory time of year...

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#photography #morningglory #flowers #Plymouth #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 18

Mute Swan on the bog ponds...

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Beautiful despite being an invasive species from Eurasia...

#photography #barkerbogs #muteswan #Redbrook #Plymouth #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 17

Great Blue Heron at harvest time...

An opportune phone photograph

#photography #blueheron #cranberry #harvest #barkerbogs #Redbrook #Plymouth #Massachusetts

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 16

FB-111A foreground with B-1A Lancer in background

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Wings over the Rockies - Denver, Colorado

#photography #aviation #Denver #Colorado

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hope he is homeless someday...

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hey, Rupert is old... why not treat him the same way? Right Fox?

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 13

I have two words: F#ckin Asshole

chas77.bsky.social @chas77.bsky.social · Sep 13

Friends... dogs are the best

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While they are here but a short while, their friendship lasts forever...

#photography #dogs #family #friends