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National Park Mystery Photo 43: What's In Store?

This isn't wine.

In which unit of the National Park System was this photo taken, and what does it depict? We'll give you a hint: It's not wine.

Readers who answer correctly will be eligible for our monthly prize drawing.

The answer will be posted in tomorrow's Traveler.

No cheating! If we catch you Googling or engaged in sneakery of any description, we'll make you write on the whiteboard 100 times:

The 34-letter word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" of Mary Poppins fame is thought to have been derived from a combination of the concepts super-  (above), cali-  (beauty), fragilistic-  (delicate), expiali- (to atone), and docious-  (educable). Although this can be taken to have many different meanings, such as "atoning for educability through delicate beauty," it was said to mean "something to say when you have nothing to say" in the Mary Poppins context.  Some people with nothing better to do have learned to spell this word backwards, which is suocodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus.

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Just so you can get hit by Eric's on both sides, I'll guess a keg of gunpowder in the arsenal at Springfield Armory NHS. 


The Quizmeister is delighted to learn that you are happy, Eric, even when wandering the poorly marked trails of the mystery photo wilderness.  As for your latest guess, well, I'm afraid that your feel-gooder is in need of recalibration. Now that you have struck Fort Vancouver National Historic Site from your list, I trust that we may expect to hear from you again very soon? 


Not gunpowder in Cuyahoga National Park, and not gunpowder at Springfield Armory National Historic Site.

Glad to see Ted getting involved in the fray. Not sure I'm ready to deal with two Erics, though.


I'm moving my guesses East...
Keg of powder in the storehouse at Fort Washington Park.


Not gunpowder in Fort Washington Park.

Just wondering, Eric.  Are you familar with the board game Clue?


Gun powder at Fort McHenry!


Not gunpowder at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine.  Welcome to the fray, Marta. Maybe you can show the Erics how it is done.


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