The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
Visiting a state capitol complex? Really? Hear me out. We previously toured the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and we knew that tiles made there featured in Pennsylvania’s capitol. What we didn’t know is that …
Even though we’ve previously been to a regular viewing of the Gettysburg Cyclorama, we were interested in their extended “An Evening with the Painting” program. Gettysburg is not too far from where Doug’s family lives, …
The town of Gettysburg, PA had a mere 2,400 residents when 160,000 troops arrived to fight the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. The Shriver House Museum aims to tell the story from the …
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 …
The James Madison Museum of Orange County honors our 4th President, Father of the Constitution, and author of the Bill of Rights, James Madison. In addition, it collects artifacts of Orange County, Virginia’s history and …
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 …
Doug and I went to the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville primarily to see the beautiful Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson, but also to see the (alleged) Edgar Allan Poe Room, the “Declaring Independence …
The VMI Museum at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., is small museum honoring the history of the institute, and showcasing an impressive firearms collection that was donated to them. The museum dates to …
I was in fairly high hopes about our Confederacy experiences-to-be after our stop at the White House of the Confederacy, but visits to Stonewall Jackson sites in Virginia put an end to that expectation. We …
