Behind the Governor’s Palace, home of the Virginia colony’s royal and post colonial governors. This weekend my family and I returned from a fun-filled week in Colonial Williamsburg and

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  Mathew Brady portrait of Rev. C.T. Quintard sometime between 1855 and 1865.            “If it be true that — ‘They also serve, who only stand and wait,’ surely they serve

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  Army helicopter pilot Mark Clotfelter.   Today marks the final Friday I’m hosting a guest blogger from my writer’s group.  Susan Clotfelter Jimison, a full-time book store owner and

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This morning’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral marks a new era in space exploration. SpaceX’s bold move to rocket the first private spacecraft to the International

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Union nurse Nellie Chase was known by Civil War soldiers as the Florence Nightingale of her time — a driven young woman who overcame personal hardship to serve her country

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A view of the Twin Towers nine days before September 11th.                           Photo by Anne Wainscott Like everyone in

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Lake 26 from the Sargent family cabin deck. Photo by: Anne Wainscott-Sargent 3,000 miles.  Four states. Nineteen cousins. That’s what my family just completed – a Midwest roadtrip that took

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Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, Callaway Gardens Pine Mountain, Georgia    According to Callaway’s website, “nature’s beauty floats gracefully through the air at this glass-enclosed conservatory.” Home to 50 species of

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Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo by: Thanh Cat Few places match the majesty of Denali National Park and Preserve, created in 1917. Located near the top of the world,

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Whether it’s to inform, entertain, unify or defend, speeches are a critical form of communication. Good ones  know how to grab and keep the audience’s attention, and great ones change thinking and inspire action. 

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