The 18-mile Mount Vernon Trail is one of the Washington, D.C. Metro area's most popular trails. Just across the Potomac River from D.C. in Virginia, the trail links Theodore Roosevelt Island Park with George Washington's Estate in Mount Vernon.
Gilead, area of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River, corresponding to modern northwestern Jordan. The region is bounded in the north by the YarmÅ«k River and in the southwest by what were known in ancient times as the âplains of Moabâ; to the east there is no definite boundary.
And just last year, the Afro-American poet Kamau Daaoud recorded Balm of Gilead (for Billie Holiday and Lester Young) for his album Leimert Park. Today Daaoud explains that âtheir friendship arose from this common understanding of the nature of the world that they lived, and the nature of the pain they had to struggle through to do what they had to doâ.