During the very first trip in the "Highways of History" series, it became clear that the exitstep of our travel van was too high for many of the participants. At one of the first stops in the tour (where the 69th had drilled in Chestnut Hill in 1861) Joe Rumley found a cinderblock and brought it with us for the remainder of the trip. Each time the van would stop, Joe would place the cinderblock in front of the exitway. Joe kept the block at the end of the 1st "Highways of History" trip.
Before the second bus trip, Joe had painted the block green and labeled it with our logo and regimental label. Each future trip would find the "Rumley Cinderblock" traveling with us.
The cinderblock travels with us,each trip we take and with it the spirit of Joe Rumley, our comrade and friend.
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