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Continue reading →: From the Annals of Book Collecting — La Crosse, VA
We headed south last weekend to attend a big family and friends get-together being held down in La Crosse, Virginia. One of the grand gentleman of the event, knowing I was a book collecting type of guy, invited me to his nearby home to scan his shelves for any books…
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Continue reading →: Free State of Jones
While walking through the Gettysburg battlefield museum this past June, I noticed something I hadn’t during my previous 6 or so trips: a display listing the total number of white southern men, per confederate state, that had fought for the Union and its army. The total number was over 100,000…
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Continue reading →: “Yet again in America”
“And uniquely American, this happens with regularity, in large numbers, as a pattern, just here, nowhere else.” “Now, gun laws, regulations, background checks, soft targets, body armor, death penalty, mental health, time for action, I promise, thoughts and prayers. We hear yah. We heard you last time, and the time…
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Continue reading →: Colorized 1931 photograph of Albert Einstein
“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.”— Albert Einstein — Quoted by Moszkowski in Conversations with Einstein, 184 I was fascinated by my discovery of the…
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Jeff Wills 