Introducing my Granddaughter to Mount Vernon on Mother’s Day
After walking through the Texas Gate entrance to obtain tickets and a tour time for the mansion, I introduced little Miss M to the Washington family!
18th Century Virginia Musings
After walking through the Texas Gate entrance to obtain tickets and a tour time for the mansion, I introduced little Miss M to the Washington family!
A week before Independence Day, Mount Vernon sponsored a special evening on the grounds including fireworks over the Potomac and the mansion.
When the Lake Ridge area formed in 1971, parts of Tackett’s Mill was brought to this site to become the focal point for the central shopping area.
Yesterday, the kids and I visited George Washington’s office in Winchester, representative of Virginia’s western frontier.
Today I attended my first fox chase, which quite intrigued me because of all the influence I see here in Northern Virginia, especially in Middleburg.
While touring the garden exhibit, 19th century renderings of Mount Vernon falling to ruins caught my heartstrings. And Abraham Lincoln was there!
Patricia Brady wove the facts about Martha Washington into the worldview and lifestyle of Virginia society and the early Republic, for this informative book.
Little did we know that we had already visited the site of another Marguerite Henry book, Cinnabar, the One O’Clock Fox.
Since my daughter has been busy with college, she hadn’t yet worn the pink gown I sewed for her last year, so I joined her by wearing my matching yellow gown.
Convincing the state legislatures of Virginia and Maryland to create the Patowmack Company in 1785, Washington became president of the company.