Palmerston`s Whites Junction Trail
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 Israelite Prophet: Ezekiel
Timeframe:
Ezekiel's lived in Jerusalem and Babylon in the first three decades of the 6th century. Before the first surrender of Jerusalem, he was a functioning priest. He was among those deported in 597 to Babylonia.
Family:
Ezekiel was born in Jerusalem in a priestly family. His father's name was Buzi.
Mission:
Before the first surrender of Jerusalem, Ezekiel was a functioning priest probably attached to the Jerusalem Temple staff. He was among those deported in 597 to Babylonia, where he was located at Tel-abib on the Kebar canal (near Nippur). It is evident that he was, among his fellow exiles, a person of uncommon stature. Ezekiel’s religious call came in July 592 when he had a vision of the “throne-chariot” of God. He subsequently prophesied until 585 and then is not heard of again until 572. His latest datable utterance can be dated about 570 bc, 22 years after his first.