Went out in the rain to mail my donation check to Virginia Civil War Events, Inc. in memory of my husband Martin Cross, who took me to every Civil War battlefield except Vicksburg and that’s only because he left this world at age 44. He read all three volumes of Shelby Foote’s history books, and one time when the speaker didn’t show up at a Rotary meeting, he stood up and extemporaneously spoke about the war as if he’d written all three volumes. I’ve seen everything from Robert E. Lee’s taxidermied horse at VMI to the final resting place of Stonewall Jackson’s arm at Ellwood thanks to that man.
There’s thousands of other people just like him, from all over the world, hungry to learn more about the Civil War by walking the ground where it happened, and they’re coming here.
They’re also going to be looking at US — all the more important for all of us to come together as a community and neighbors and work on this project together and support it. This is our Olympics, and we didn’t even have to compete for it.
Here’s a link to the presentation to the PWBOCS called “Of the Students, By the Students, For the Students”. They show what the students did for Harper’s Ferry and their celebration of the 150th Anniversary.
November 12, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Wow! I want to go there! Wait. I live here!
Went out in the rain to mail my donation check to Virginia Civil War Events, Inc. in memory of my husband Martin Cross, who took me to every Civil War battlefield except Vicksburg and that’s only because he left this world at age 44. He read all three volumes of Shelby Foote’s history books, and one time when the speaker didn’t show up at a Rotary meeting, he stood up and extemporaneously spoke about the war as if he’d written all three volumes. I’ve seen everything from Robert E. Lee’s taxidermied horse at VMI to the final resting place of Stonewall Jackson’s arm at Ellwood thanks to that man.
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/jackson/stonewallArm.html
There’s thousands of other people just like him, from all over the world, hungry to learn more about the Civil War by walking the ground where it happened, and they’re coming here.
They’re also going to be looking at US — all the more important for all of us to come together as a community and neighbors and work on this project together and support it. This is our Olympics, and we didn’t even have to compete for it.
November 13, 2009 at 10:06 am
From a Neighborhood Improvement Circles friend:
Here’s a link to the presentation to the PWBOCS called “Of the Students, By the Students, For the Students”. They show what the students did for Harper’s Ferry and their celebration of the 150th Anniversary.
http://pwcgov.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=275
Information for you to pass on to a certain award-winning young filmmaker, Andy.
November 18, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Highly recommended (and I urge you to contribute if able):
http://www.historyanimated.com/BullRunAnimation.html
http://www.historyanimated.com/ManassasTwoAnimation.html
Seeing the entirety of both battles animated in such a way brings them to life far more than static maps in a book or on a web page!