9/3/2011
Patricia! This might be your most aggravating entry yet. Manassas and Appomattox are almost 150 miles apart. I understand the theme here (the beginning and the end of the Civil War) but in terms of using your book in a practical way, I’m not sure what you were thinking here. So, I reserved my right to only go to one of these totally distant places – in this case Manassas.
After the wedding we drove a half hour to the site of the two battles of Manassas (that’s Bull Run to you Yankees.) Interesting in a “this is where it happened and I’m standing here for some reason” way. We looked at the monkey and a giant statue of Stonewall Jackson.
From Laura: We've been seeing alot of Civil War battlefields lately. Let's move on to other things. But I would still rate them higher than some of our West Virginian events. I can see why Virginia and West Virginia don't like each other. They are definitely on opposite ends of the spectrum. In WV you have women breastfeeding in public, and in the other state they have Montecello. Also, my husband does get very distressed when he must choose between two places that are so far from each other that he must pick only one. Stop doing that, Patricia. When he suffers, I suffer.
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