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When I was in grade school, our library had a copy of illustrated Greek myths that I kept checked out for the better part of a school year simply because I loved the stories. I often think of that book when I see memes on Facebook using artworks of one of the 12 labors of Hercules--slaying the Nemean Lion--labeled something along the lines of "Hercules trying to give his cat a pill."

Millie and I paid a visit to Washington Monument State Park this past week on a chilly, overcast April day. We had set up camp at nearby Greenbrier State Park, just a little more than two miles away along the Appalachian Trail.