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Blog “Beware of the Ides of March.” True or Fiction? “Beware the Ides of March.” Truth or Fiction: You’ve probably of heard the soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s play of the same name: “Beware the Ides of March.” Not only did Shakespeare’s words stick, they branded the phrase-and the date, March 15-with a dark and gloomy connotation. It’s likely that many people […]
Blog March History in Beautiful Virginia March History in Beautiful Virginia The old saying “March Roars in like a Lion it will go out like a Lamb”, was an old wives saying my grandparents use to say all the time. Well, this started my thinking about the historic events that happened in the month of March here in Virginia, which I found […]
Blog The Mother State of Presidents: Virginia! The Mother State of Presidents: Virginia! Historically, Virginia has been the most common birthplace of U.S. presidents, with eight in total; although seven of these were born in the 1700s, and Woodrow Wilson is the most recent Virginian to have been elected president, in 1912. Depending on how you calculate things, several different states can […]
Blog Heart of My Heart…Valentine’s Day! Heart of My Heart ….. Valentine’s Day I love Valentine’s Day! When I was in Electuary School, we use to make Valentine mail boxes to get cards. It was always a big deal to see who received the most cards. Homemade or store bought it did not matter. Some cards we even used decorated paper bags for out cards […]
Blog Yorktown Virginia: Shipwrecks Yorktown Virginia: Shipwrecks The Yorktown Wrecks is an expansive archaeologically sensitive area of Virginia’s York River, in whose waters significant naval remnants of the American Revolutionary War are located. As a result of surveys conducted in the 1970s, at least ten sunken vessels sunken or scuttled around the time of the 1781 Siege of Yorktown […]
Blog Hampton Lighthouse & the Sensational 1931 Trial Hampton Lighthouse & the Sensational 1931 Trial Hampton Lighthouse and the Sensational 1931 Trial The Back River Light, also known as the Grandview Light, was a lighthouse south of the mouth of the Back River on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, several miles north of Fort Monroe near Hampton, Virginia. Plagued by erosion […]
Blog The History of Brunswick Stew: Virginia is the Winner! The History of Brunswick Stew: Virginia is the Winner! Two Southern states, Virginia and Georgia, have long been dueling over which is the home of Brunswick stew. Folks in Brunswick County, Va., hold an annual stew-off, while those in Brunswick, Ga., display a cast-iron spot that reportedly cooked up the very first batch of stew […]
Blog Grandma Knew Farm to Table Cooking Grandma Knew Farm to Table Cooking My daughter in law turned me on to a FB posts from Glen and Friends who is in Canada and posts of food he cooks from cookbooks or recipes dating before 1950.  It is wonderful.  It got me so excited that I started going through my cookbooks collections (which […]
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