M.B. HENRY
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“People forced to live by conventions are always the first to enforce them.”
– G. Hodgman, “Bettyville”

“I wish we could erase all those – those atrocities,” she stammered…
“Never say that,” he insisted. “Say you want to make things right, to build a better future. But erasing the past – or worse, trying to rewrite it – is the tool of despots. Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.”
– Katharine McGee, “American Royals”

“It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor. But not Rhett. He admitted everything and laughed and dared her to say more.”
– Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”

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Francis C. Barlow – From Private to General, and Beyond

The year was 1851, and it was a still, silent night on the Harvard Campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Dew beaded the spacious and lush grounds. Night birds sang and crickets chirped. Most students and faculty were sound asleep in their cozy dormitories. Suddenly…. KABOOM. An earth-shattering roar split the air. Students rolled out of their beds. Some stray dogs barked and windows rattled. In the Cambridge arsenal on campus, smoke rose from… Read More

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Fire in the Wilderness

It was May 5, 1864. Spring had arrived in the state of Virginia, but so had the Union army.  It wasn’t the first time, either.  In fact, they had marched through Virginia for quite some time.  Month after month, battle after battle, year after year.  Since 1861, the boys in blue had slugged it out, and lost, against the formidable General Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.  These fights carried a… Read More

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AUTHOR/HISTORY ENTHUSIAST/PHOTOGRAPHER
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Today’s Book Recommendations
Great Summer Reads
Summer of 69
Where the Crawdads Sing
Saint X
The Forgotten Garden
Quotes of the Week

“People forced to live by conventions are always the first to enforce them.”
– G. Hodgman, “Bettyville”

“I wish we could erase all those – those atrocities,” she stammered…
“Never say that,” he insisted. “Say you want to make things right, to build a better future. But erasing the past – or worse, trying to rewrite it – is the tool of despots. Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.”
– Katharine McGee, “American Royals”

“It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor. But not Rhett. He admitted everything and laughed and dared her to say more.”
– Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”

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