A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Mount Vernon. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Mount Vernon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Photo of the Day: The Potomac River, As Viewed From Mount Vernon

I took this picture in November 2010, while visiting Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate in Alexandria, VA. Ignore the apocryph...

Friday, February 15, 2019

Photo of the Day: George Washington’s Mount Vernon

In the old days, Americans trooped to Mount Vernon to pay tribute to America’s first President. When I visited the estate of George W...

Friday, November 26, 2010

Southern Travel Journal, Days 1 and 2: Alexandria VA

I write this not at the end of each day of my vacation, but after the conclusion of the trip. I was too busy experiencing everything—or orga...

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

This Day in Preservation History (“Southern Matron” Saves Mount Vernon)

Dec. 2, 1853—Signed by “A Southern Matron,” a letter published in the December issue of the Charleston Mercury urged the women of the Sout...

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