Subject: Re: Kovno Gubernia Border Marker<br/>
Date: Jun 30, 2003 @ 16:46<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1244337705">ahh excuse me peter<br/>
i hadnt noticed you arriving with this<br/>
when i only thought i was left here alone<br/>
<br/>
hmm<br/>
it seems to suggest all those tall barber poles may be a <br/>
comparatively recent invention<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
anyway as far as our moscow on the hudson went<br/>
it was indeed the epitome of high security there<br/>
& a strange place for someone to visit who had so recently <br/>
sworn such strange places off forever<br/>
<br/>
tho electronically searched & helped to empty our own pockets & <br/>
constantly under surveillance by various throngs of police of all <br/>
descriptions & jurisdictions <br/>
we were never actually frisked <br/>
so i was able to sneak the blueprint thru inside my shirt like a <br/>
regular saboteur as well as a few joints in an inside pocket<br/>
<br/>
en route<br/>
the statue of liberty was closed yet still beautiful<br/>
as they say our divine right to her is unalienable<br/>
& i believe them<br/>
<br/>
anyway our ultimate arrival at ellis island<br/>
tho asher & a total of 10 of our direct ancestors had been there <br/>
before<br/>
marked in the event my completion of the american interstate <br/>
exclave trio<br/>
& i guessed at first i was one of perhaps 1000 such completers<br/>
then rethought it & revised down to 100 <br/>
to which asher agreed<br/>
but now after sleeping on it i have to wonder if there are as many <br/>
as 10 who have even noticed all 3 of them<br/>
i mean outside of us at bp<br/>
<br/>
more later<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; <br/>
&lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Jan S. Krogh&quot; <br/>
 </span></blockquote>&lt;jan.krogh@t...&gt; <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; Hello everybody!<br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; Last weekend in Rokiskis museum here in Lithuania I found <br/>
 </span></blockquote>an <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; internal<br/>
&gt; &gt; Russian border marker which has been used prior to 1918 <br/>
 </span></blockquote>to mark the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; boundary<br/>
&gt; &gt; to Kovno Gubernia. It was in a pretty good shape and with the <br/>
&gt; imperial<br/>
&gt; &gt; Russian crown.<br/>
&gt; &gt; Some minutes before I was out of film in my camera...<br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; Jan<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Mmm... Maybe I can offer you some consolation.<br/>
&gt; A nice Russian border marker, complete with coat-of-arms, <br/>
 </span></blockquote>from former <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; JPRU in another museum (on Sakhalin): <br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://museum.sakh.com/images/photo16.jpg">http://museum.sakh.com/images/photo16.jpg</a><br/>
&gt; Inscription: RUSSIA - BOUNDARY. Clear enough for a <br/>
 </span></blockquote>boundary marker.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Peter S. </span></blockquote></div>