June was absolutely beautiful in Coastal Virginia. Cool temperatures enabled us to savor the outdoors before the crushing humidity we know is coming in July and August. The very first day of June we hosted our church Home Group. I … Continue reading June Snapshots
The National D-Day Memorial is located just minutes west of Lynchburg in Bedford, Virginia. We regularly pass by it on our way to the family farm, but despite our love for history, we never took time to take the exit … Continue reading Remembering Normandy: The National D-Day Memorial
Last year as I was brainstorming ideas for local outings suitable to a year of studying Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Classical Greece, Republic and Empirical Rome and its demise, I scheduled in several focus trips to our local Chrysler Museum of … Continue reading The Moses Myers House
As we moved toward Imperial Rome, our effort to connect our history study to architecture looked upward beyond columns to domes. The classic Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster describes the construction of the original Pantheon in Rome by Caesar’s … Continue reading The Grandeur that is Dome…
Having grown up in various regions of the Old Dominion I’ve been surrounded by Classical Architecture all my life. From the capital city of Richmond, the outskirts of Washington D.C., the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge, to the Chesapeake Bay … Continue reading Connecting Architecture to History
For a time my family lived in Northern Virginia just 5 minutes from Mount Vernon Plantation. I graduated from Mt. Vernon High School! My friends and I would often use the far reaches of the plantation’s parking lot as a … Continue reading Stopping by Mount Vernon Plantation
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