Julia Child’s Kitchen Bon Appetit! Americans will be spending a great deal time this week, in the kitchen and sitting around the table enjoying our Thanksgiving dinner. Thus, I thought you might enjoy a peek, at what has to be one of the most famous American kitchens, of all time...
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President William Jefferson Clinton’s First Home Museum A detour took us through Hope, Arkansas, and inevitably, it was impossible for me to by-pass a Presidential site. I take umbrage with President Clinton’s lack of honor, most especially, while sitting in the White House. However, his accomplishments, especially given his humble beginnings, are worth...
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I hope you were able to enjoy Free This Month – I did! Yesterday, we had a strikingly stunning New England day with leaves turning, sun shining, and a perfect 80 degrees. We took advantage of the Free Museum Day, sponsored by the Smithsonian and visited the Sarah Orne Jewett Home and...
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Remembering Nine-Eleven Do Not Forget Colonel Donna J. Neary, USMCR (Ret) Liberty Rising – “God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to defend it . . .” ~ Daniel Webster, 1834 ~ Recently, I had someone ask me what my connection to the barbaric attacks of...
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The Chapel at the United States Naval Academy Here are a few of the pictures, which I took during my latest walk around the Academy http://thatisallfornow.com/?p=8152 The United States Naval Academy was founded in 1845; construction on the current Chapel began in 1904, with elements, like the stained glass of Christ walking on...
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The Oakridge Flat-Top Type B-1 House “There were only 3 Flat Tops on our street when I left for school one morning. When I came home from that afternoon, there was a whole new neighborhood of Flat Tops – finished, furnished, and occupied.” ~ Sue Wassom Thomas ~ During World War...
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Philadelphia “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a...
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National D-Day Memorial Bedford, Virginia was home to the largest number of casualties, during the heroic and monumental June 6, 1944 landing in France, to liberate Europe from the Nazi war machine. The National D-Day Memorial, in the United States, is thus fittingly situated on 88 acres in the small, quiet town. As the free...
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A Walk through the President Gerald R. Ford Museum “As we continue our American adventure…all our heroes and heroines of war and peace send us this single, urgent message: though prosperity is a good thing, though compassionate charity is a good thing, though institutional reform is a good thing, a nation survives only...
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Studio B Nashville Unplanned stops are always my favorites, I have no idea what I was driving around Nashville looking for, when I spied the RCA Victor sign; and decided to pull over and investigate, this rather unassuming building, located at 222 Fifth Avenue South, on Music Row. ~M~ I am...
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