Margaret Toogood

The Last Slave in Maryland

Ishmael Day

From Between The Lines by H.B. Smith, 1911

Barbara Fritchie with a Shotgun: Like fellow elderly Marylander Barbara Fritchie, Ishmael Day became famous for defending the flag from rebel invaders during the Civil War. But Day differs from Fritchie in several respects. Barbara Fritchie probably didn't do what she is famous for doing, and Day used a shotgun. Day was also a veteran of the War of 1812.

A Civil War Love Story

She was a Confederate Heroine, He was a Union Officer;

Ford Building, 3977 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax

  Together They Found a Separate Peace.

The Death and Resurrection of Hippocrates' Plane Tree

Platanus orientalis  'Hippocrates Sycamore'

Is Jesus an Illusion?

 

Well ... this one is!

The Most Insignificant Justice

Gabriel Duvall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, built Marietta in 1812, and died here in  1844.

Patty Cannon and the Tangent Line

Kidnapping, Murder, and the Reverse Underground Railroad 

on Mason & Dixon's Line