Today, October 25, 2010, is the 87th anniversary of the establishment of “Carlsbad Cave National Monument” on October 25, 1923 by President Calvin Coolidge

From  my history post of February 6, 2008 (see that date below)

Where did the Land for Carlsbad Caverns come from? Some Partial Observations

under section:

“A Mistake in Land Acquisition takes Two Years to Straighten Out”

Early this morning something kept gnawing on me about this date today—and I knew Chris and I’s anniversary had been Oct 23 so it couldn’t be that (again); it finally dawned on me: we haven’t been married 87 years so it must have something to do with the park.

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