Palmerston`s Whites Junction Trail
This cache replaces the archived one on the closed rail trail. It resides very near the area called "Whites Junction". It is located where the Ghost Train used to split off from the main line to head toward Owen Sound, as far as I can ascertain at this point. A very historical place to visit!!!
White's Junction Trail currently runs from the Black Locomotive on Main Street in Palmerston North to Side Road 5 approximately 6 kilometers. The actual trail starts up on Inkerman Street - a few streets to the north!
This trail is the home of many interesting plants and wildlife, such as, woodpeckers, blue jays, opossums, herons, deer, hawks, and turtles, prairie grass, flowering spurge, trout lilies, butterfly milkweed, wild bergamot and thimbleweed.
An historical sketch of an ancient book called: Lamentations
Timeframe:
Jeremiah is believed to be the author of the Book of Lamentations around 440 B.C.
Family:
Jeremiah was born in a priestly family, in the town of Anatoth belonging to the Tribe of Benjamin. His father was the prophet and Kohen-Gadol (High Priest) Hilkiah.
Mission:
Generally, the book of Lamentations is a Hebrew alphabetical acrostic, meaning that each verse in each chapter begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet - aleph, beit ... tav (22 letters - 22 verses). Chapter five has 22 verses but is not an acrostic and Chapter 3 has 66 verses. It mourns the destruction of the first temple and the ensuing exile of the Jewish nation. It is a common belief that its author - Jeremiah - penned it after the tragic events. In actuality, the widely accepted Jewish view is that Lamentations was penned years before the actual events it depicts. The first temple was destroyed in the year 423 B.C., some seventeen years earlier.