9/11, Patriotism, and the Spirit of America
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, were horrible. I don’t know about the rest of you, but 9/11 threw me into a state of grief I had never encountered before. Honestly, at one point that very afternoon, I stepped out of the building, sat at a nearby picnic table, [...]
Archive for the ‘Virginia’ Category
Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia
Posted in Virginia, tagged 9/11, National Parks, travel, Virginia, Yorktown on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Booker T. Washington National Monument, Hardy, Virginia
Posted in Virginia, tagged African-Americans, Booker T. Washington, emancipation, farming, history, National Parks, slavery, travel, Virginia on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One Problem, Many Solutions, Few Successes
If there is one difficult part of American history & society, it is that transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War period (which, in actuality, is still going on today). I’m not talking about the actual sequence of events from the Emancipation Proclamation to Kanye West’s recent Grammy [...]
Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia & North Carolina
Posted in North Carolina, Virginia, tagged Blue Ridge Parkway, National Parks, nature, North Carolina, travel, Virginia on February 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Beep! Beep! Honk! Honk! — Curse of the Drive-By Tourists
It’s an odd sort of thing: a National Park that’s really just a stretch of road. But that’s what the Blue Ridge Parkway is: a stretch of road. It’s a terrific stretch of road, however. It runs between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, and Great Smoky Mountains [...]
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington, Virginia
Posted in Virginia, tagged Arlington National Cemetery, armed forces, history, National Parks, Robert E. Lee, travel, Virginia on January 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Paths of the Dead
Hoo boy, I’ve been writing a lot about the Civil War lately, haven’t I? That last post, about Appomattox, kinda drained me, and now I feel I’m gonna short-shrift Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. I just don’t have the energy in me. Let me just say I like the guy, and he [...]
