The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
In 1996, the powerful docudrama Andersonville aired on television. I remember being horrified/fascinated by it, and reading a book about it soon thereafter. Ever since I’ve wanted to visit the camp, and we were finally …
Plains, Georgia, is clearly proud to be the hometown of our 39th President, Jimmy Carter, and his wife Rosalyn. Plains had just 600 residents when Jimmy was born, so I guess producing a President (and …
Woo-hoo! A presidential site we were both excited about -– Roosevelt’s Little White House located in Warm Springs (formerly Bullochville), Georgia. During the pandemic I read Polio: An American Story#AD by David M. Oshinsky. It …
Normally I eschew sites that are reproductions, but I made an exception for the New Echota State Historic Site in Calhoun, Georgia due to its connection to the Trail of Tears, one of the subjects …
My friend Melissa had given me a gift certificate to a website where you can choose experiences around the country, and I’d been saving it for something good. I think I found it in our …
We only spent a few hours in Knoxville, arriving late on an October afternoon and heading out the next morning. But as per usual, we made the most of our limited time in the city. The …
While in Harrisburg, we drove down the east side of the Susquehanna River to a historical marker that acknowledges the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident, situated right across the river from the reactor complex. …
Last year Doug and I visited the Washington, D.C. estate Hillwood, and both the home and its owner, Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887 –1973), seemed so over-the-top that I added a book about her to my …
Here is another collection of random things we saw in the Western end of Virginia that were interesting but not worthy of their own post. The ruins of James Barbour’s mansion, located in Barboursville, Virginia, …
Doug and I arrived early to the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., planning to take the first tour of the day. We made our way through their small museum, and then I ran over …
