Common Sense

I went to Paine lake today.  This is a small lake in Westchester County.

It is named after Thomas Paine. 
Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 ^[1] (NS February 9, 1737) – June 8, 1809) was an English-American^{[citation needed]} political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the America Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.^[2] His ideas reflected Enlightenment era rhetoric of transnational human rights.^[3] He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."^[4]
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin and he arrivied in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–83), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.”^[5]
Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. He wrote the Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics. His attacks on British writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel. In 1792, despite not speaking French, he was elected to the French National Convention. The Girondists regarded him as an ally. Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy. In December 1793, he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris, then released in 1794. He became notorious because of The Age of Reason (1793–94), his book that advocates deism, promotes reason and freethinking, and argues against institutionalized religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. He also wrote the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1795), discussing the origins of property, and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income.
In 1802, he returned to America where he died on June 8, 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity.^[6]

Thomas Paine is buried near this lake, in New York.

A Koi patrolling the shore line at Beechmont Lake.  This lake is in walking distance
of Paine Lake.  Beechmont has bass and big carp.

Looking north at Pelham Lake.  One of 5 lakes I visited last week.  Pelham lake is near
the town of Pelham.

I saw no fish at this lake but I think this was due to the barometric pressure.  I only hooked
one fish the whole week. 

At the southern end of Pelham Lake is this waterfall.  Water is clear, too bad the day was overcast.
I could not see into the water. After I left Pelham lake I walked to nearby Glenwood lake.

The path around Glenwood Lake.  The lake has panfish like large mouth bass, Bg's
crappie, carp and periodically it is stocked with trout.

Glenwood lake and the spring that feeds it.

looking north

Glenwood Lake in autumn