Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 105 of our Trek. Yesterday we discussed the 9 Rules for making a great pot of coffee and a great life. Today we want to explore why all trails eventually end, specifically the trails of success and failure.
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We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. It is somewhat cooler and a little rainy today, and we are hoping that it clears up completely before the grand fireworks display this evening as Marietta celebrates the 40th annual Sternwheel Festival. Our friends Bev & Katie arrived last night from Charlotte and will be spending Saturday and Sunday with us. While I am preparing for my message at church tomorrow and working on this podcast, Paula is showing them around Marietta, which has many grand old homes and is a beautiful small town. Marietta was on the western frontier of the fledgling nation after the U.S. declared its independence from Britain. The area is noted for its military outpost which was called Fort Harmar.
My family has a long history of living in the Marietta area dating back to the earliest settlers. Marietta is the oldest organized settlement in the Northwest Territory. According to Wikipedia, “On April 7, 1788, Ebenezer Sproat and a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory, led by Rufus Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to establish Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.” It seems somewhat humorous to refer to southeast Ohio as the
