When our daughter, Megan, was four years old, we lived in San Diego, California. One sunny Saturday, we attended a Scottish Highland Games. Ian was only a few months old, but I knew he would enjoy it. The month before he was born, I’d had to leave a Christmas parade as he marched along with […]
On Saturday, Dave and I attended the Historic Fincastle Fall Festival. It was a perfect autumn day, and some trees were beginning to turn. Fincastle was established in 1772 as the county seat of Botetourt County. The town was strategically situated along the Great Wagon Road and the Wilderness Road, which were used by settlers
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I have a confession to make. I LOVE roller coasters! And I’ll try almost anything once. Yesterday, Dave and I enjoyed a day at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, and spent most of it riding the thrill rides. It’s great to have a partner who appreciates them as much as you do. Busch Gardens is
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In man’s earliest days of walking upright millions of years ago, he struggled to find improved methods of moving goods and people around. Initially, this was done on foot. People walked everywhere they went and often carried the young or infirm. Goods could be transported in packs worn on their backs or in slings across
Today is Father’s Day, and Dave’s gift will be the same thing he got for Christmas: a ride on a steam train. He loves trains, and this time, I chose a different route. For the previous trip, we had a lovely ride through the mountains of western North Carolina on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad.
I must confess that I enjoy watching Time Team, a British television show where a team of archaeologists must uncover the answer to a question and have only three days to do it. It seems most people, like Tony Robinson, the host, expect to hear about beautiful finds, which, in the past, was also what
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While I often feel like I am running around in circles, that is not what I meant by the title of this article. Anyone who has been around me for any length of time knows I enjoy finding connections between places, events, and people. And none have been more fun than chasing the roots of
What springs to mind when someone uses the term ghost ship? Are you like me and envision the Black Pearl from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? When I heard there was a ghost fleet in nearby Mallows Bay, I was intrigued. They offer kayak tours, so of course, I signed us up. Mallows Bay,
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There is so much history near our house in Maryland. Pulling out of our neighborhood, to the right lay the ruins of Marshall Hall, the home of William Marshall, constructed in 1725. From the grounds, I can look across the Potomac River at Mount Vernon, the home of Marshall’s friend, George Washington. Turning left and
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As you know, I loved living in Germany, but there were a few things I missed while we were gone. One of them was being a part of the 7th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line, an American Revolutionary War re-enactment group. Well, this weekend, Dave and I rejoined the 7th for the Revolutionary War
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