Today has been such a perfect summer day that it reminded me of this photo I've been meaning to post.  Time: 1920s.  Place: Lookout Mountain: Tennessee or Georgia.  I can never remember where that battle took place.  Anyway, it overlooks the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and judging by the number of vintage photos one finds taken around this particular cannon, it must have been a popular spot.

I imagine this family was on a summer Sunday afternoon outing.  I love outing photos, and search them out.  It always amazes me to see how dressed they all are.  Today, they would probably be the object of many stares and not a few giggles.  But how special they look, and it must have punctuated the specialness of the trip.  In today's go as you please atmosphere, it's refreshing to see people who took pains to look their best when going out in public, even it that meant the side of a mountain.

 

Georgia (it's confusing because it is right on the border, looking down at Chattanooga, Tennessee), sight of "the battle above the clouds" during the Chattanooga campaign of 1863.

"SITE" not sight. (sigh)

Thanks, Shay. I remember passing the state line sign, but wasn't sure where the battleground fit into the picture. I didn't realize that there is an actual town up there!