better left unsaid

The Louis­bourg Cross was cap­tured in a 1745 raid on the fortress by a mili­tia from New Eng­land loyal to King George. At the time, the fortress was occu­pied by the French. The Cross ended up in the Har­vard Uni­ver­sity archives where it remained for 250 years until they per­ma­nently loaned it back. Gotta love those Amer­i­cans and their loans.

This cross of course is not the orig­i­nal. The orig­i­nal is held across the street from this one inside one of the exhibits where it’s pro­tected from the ele­ments and fanatic mili­tias from the US.

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: #8 yel­low
Film: Fuji Acros 100
Devel­oper: Kodak XTOL 1+3
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 14 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for the first minute, then five inver­sions per minute.
Date: August 2009
Loca­tion: 45.893227,-59.976454
Copy­right: 2009 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

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