A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 20 June 2023 - T for a fortress, a sculptress and Pete Seeger....

 Hello lovely ladies, Here I am again and I'm still on my travels. I have some photos to show you but first my postcard for today:

Hohensalzburg Fortress is a large medieval fortress in the city of Salzburg, Austria. It sits atop the Festungsberg at an altitude of 506 m. It was erected at the behest of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg. The fortress is 250 m long and 150 m wide making it one of the largest medieval castles in Europe. Wikipedia

It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it comes to me from the USA. Kristina, who is an airplane engineer and lives in Renton, Washington state, sent it to me because I collect postcards from UNESCO WH sites.

So it has US stamps:

What beauties! Now who is Edmonia Lewis?

Mary Edmonia Lewis,(July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907) also known as "Wildfire", was an American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American heritage. Born free in Upstate New York, she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. Wikipedia

Mary Edmonia Lewis was a trailblazer who shattered racial barriers as the first professional African American sculptor in the mid-1800s, becoming famous for her 1,408kg marble sculpture, The Death of Cleopatra.

Read more about her and this sculpture here:

And of course we all know Pete Seeger! 

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably its recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Wikipedia

I personally remember 'Where have all the flowers gone?' and 'Turn, Turn,Turn' (Later the Byrds had a hit with it), and 'If I had a hammer' (Trini Lopez had a hit with that). I also remember 'Kisses, sweeter than wine'. (Are you humming it with me?)

Wikipedia writes: Seeger was one of the folk singers responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists), which became the acknowledged anthem of the civil rights movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.

My friend and I are now in Italy. Strangely enough the weather in Northern Europe was much warmer. Here it is cool and very windy. We did go to the beach yesterday but we couldn’t swim, it was too wild.

But let’s take you back to Germany. Here we are in a beautiful place called Haslach. We looked for somewhere to eat, but it was late ( in Germany they eat early, at 8 pm there is nothing to be had)

But the beer is really nice. I too love the weissbier. It comes in enormous glasses.

But we were hungry and this place sold Flammkuchen. I had no idea what it was but it is a extremely fine pizza. Very yummy and crispy.

Then we walked through the village. This is the town hall:

And in the next street we found a sculpture:

We found another restaurant still open and we stopped for an ice cream. I forgot to take a picture of it, but as it was getting dark, I photographed the ‘pub sign’.

That’s it from me today. As it’s T for Tuesday hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard, I hope you will all join us by posting a drink in your blog. My drink was that enormous glass of beer.

Happy T-Day,

Hugs,

Lisca