Earlier this week, we spent three days in a town that wasn’t even on my radar screen until about a week ago; that was the day we decided to head south into the sunshine instead of north into the the winter abyss (see Cold And A Virus In The Mid-South). Vicksburg, Miss., might be familiar …
One needs to go back centuries to find the beginnings of what is referred to as the Old Trace. [Trace means ‘path’ or ‘road’.] The Trace as we know it today began not as a single trail, but a weaving of animal and Indian paths following the quickest and easiest way through the land. Ancient Indians had the …
The Battle at Brices Cross Roads came first. By 1864, Union forces held strong positions all around the Confederacy. Gettysburg and Vicksburg and Chattanooga victories were behind them and four of the 11 Confederate states were now in Union hands. Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was making his way through the South on his famed March to …
Sunday, February 15th — I am very happy to be back online after several days with a virus in my website, and very grateful to our future son-in-law for helping me take care of the issue! I’m not sure what joy people get from messing with other people’s property, physical and/or intellectual, but I’m happy that the intrusion …
