For the first time in three days I have semi-reliable connectivity, so I’m hoping I can catch up on a few posts – hurray! :) This post dates back to Friday, November 7th. — We continue to make our way south. We have a couple more national parks to visit before we take our Thanksgiving break back up …
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was a true renaissance man – a scholar, a scientist in many fields; some not even yet defined and named, an “enthusiast” of the arts, a farmer, an architect, a global leader… the list goes on. An avid reader (and that’s an understatement; he sold some 6,700 books that essentially created the Library …
It is not a beauty contest, although, many of the competitors are quite striking. There are no style points, but the participants are very graceful, in a raw, athletic kind of way. Nicely attired handlers do not position competitors in statuesque poses and then slowly trot them around a ring. There are no “Best Behaved” …
On April 9, 1865, a dignified meeting of two military commanders in the rural central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House symbolically ended the American Civil War. At the home of Wilmer & Virginia McLean, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, overall commander of the Union …
October 27 – 31 — Just 75 miles west of Washington D.C., in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, lies Shenandoah National Park. This park was established in the 1920s and ’30s as a response to the development of large national parks in the West. With automobiles making getaways from big cities possible (‘within a day’s drive …
This has been the fall to beat all falls! From the first color twinges we saw in New Hampshire when we hiked Mt. Washington back on September 6th, and all throughout Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland and West Virginia… on through yesterday here in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, we have really enjoyed the …
October 25 & 26 — As we make our way to Shenandoah National Park, a couple other National Park Units are nearby – Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and Antietam National Battlefield. A lot of history happened in these two locations that are only about 20 miles apart, and we couldn’t help but draw a significant …
