Thread by @Revkin

In the 19th century, gravity + water at West Point Foundry equaled steam engine components, cannon barrels. Now simply this. Thanks to @scenichudson, the outdoor museum here always illuminates.

Some other views of what amounts to a @longnow outdoor museum of industry history and landscape recovery: West Point Foundry Preserve. Here's a snapping turtle walking past the one intact structure.

https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1002562500154388480

Here's the artist's rendering of the West Point Foundry water wheel, which powered boring machines making cannon barrels that helped the Union Army win the Civil War:

https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1153130232448278528

Here was some canine "forest bathing" by our dogs on a 96F day.. (yes, briefly off leash... :-)