The Lady with the Harp

 Eliza Ridgely

This 1818 painting by Thomas Sully may have saved his 15-year-old subject's home, Hampton.

Albert Pike

"Author, Poet, Soldier, Scholar" or "Traitor, Klan Leader, Satanist, Coward"?

 Nothing about Albert Pike is uncontroversial.

The Last Indian Outrage

As Jan and I were driving down the Shenandoah Valley Pike (Virginia Route 11), we stopped at this Virginia historical marker.

Historical marker, 2 miles south of Woodstock, Virginia

I remembered seeing it in the guidebook I left back in our Strasburg motel room. But...

Clash of the Martyrs

In Alexandria, at the corner of Pitt and King Streets, on the wall of the Monaco Hotel is a bronze plaque commemorating the site of the Marshall House hotel and the death of James W. Jackson. 

What's this all about?