Touring Virginia and West Virginia.

Shrimp and Grits at Succotash in DC before hitting the road.

Harpers Ferry, WV.

Jefferson Rock, Harpers Ferry.

Restaurant in Harpers Ferry with a Nisqually sign — an unexpected bit of home along the Appalachian Trail.

Mt Vernon, President George Washington’s plantation.

Tomb of George and Martha Washington.

Unmarked slave graves area.

Burial site of Stonewall Jackson's arm, following the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 3, 1863).

President James Madison gravesite.

UVA

Monticello, home of President Thomas Jefferson.

Dome Room at Monticello.

Living quarters of Sally Hemings at Monticello.

Grave of Thomas Jefferson.

Chimborazo Hospital site, Richmond — our relative Mills Valentine Bracey recovered here during the Civil War.

St. John's Church — site of the Second Virginia Convention, March 1775, where Patrick Henry gave his “Give me liberty, or give me death!” speech.

Tennis player Arthur Ashe.

President James Monroe grave, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA.

Eliza Monroe Hay, daughter of President James Monroe, was reinterred in October 2025 in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, beside her parents. Previously buried in an unmarked grave in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, for nearly 200 years.

President John Tyler gravesite.

Lunch at Redd’s, Windsor, VA. Owned by one of my cousins.

Dinner in Suffolk with relatives, during our stay at my Great Aunt Janice Scott’s home in Smithfield, Virginia.

Juvenile Gray Rat Snake.

Cotton field.

Crayfish mounds.

1800s cookhouse on my Great Aunt Leona’s Crooked Creek Farm in Chuckatuck. Shown here by her daughter, Nancy Pruden. Two young indentured servant girls once lived here; one became ill and died.

Nancy Pruden’s Crooked Creek Farm historical interview.

My Uncle Tommy brought me to the grave of Pocahontas Roberts in Windsor, a staple of his ghost stories. When you laid your hands on the stone, it hummed faintly—alive with an unsettling vibration.

Jamestown Settlement

Colonial Williamsburg