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Best Place in Delaware to...

Best Place in Delaware to…

Take a selfie?

It’s my selfie me!

I know most of the cool spots in Delaware that are sort of out of the way and interesting as I’ve been painting plein air around here for years. With the advent of tourist season I’m sharing some of my fun spots that you can’t easily find if you don’t know your way around.

It me, me! Painting like I usually do. Here by woo/ trail.

You need to check out Phillips…

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Old Stone Church near Clemson SC

Today as I reviewed some of my White family notes I ran across a previously unnoticed factoid. It seems my ancestor Henry White (April 24, 1724 Buckingham Co, VA — June 17, 1802 Bedford Co, VA) is interred at the historic Old Stone Church near Clemson, South Carolina. In previous notes, I have Henry listed as the husband of Celia Bryant Page.

Henry’s and Celia’s daughter Lucy married the Reverend…

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Statues and Memorials in London: Virginia Settlers

Statues and Memorials in London: Virginia Settlers

This monument which stands alongside the River Thames on the north shore between at Blackwall commemorates the three ships which left from here in December 1606 to found the colony at Jamestown. The tablet was a gift from the people of Virginia.The original monument which consisted of the stone structure was unveiled by the American ambassador to London in 1928. The expedition had been funded by…

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On this day in 1607, a group of about a hundred English settlers arrived at the Chesapeake Bay. They made landfall at a cape they named Cape Henry, after the Prince of Wales, and the fleet's chaplain, Robert Hunt, said a prayer and placed a cross at the site of their landing. The fleet was made up of three ships, 39 crew members, and 103 passengers — all men and boys; the women wouldn't come along until a year and a half later. The expedition was driven by entrepreneurial motives: the Virginia Company of London hoped to reap the bounty of the New World.

Upon arrival, Captain Christopher Newport opened the sealed orders from the Virginia Company, only to find that Captain John Smith, a man who had been charged with mutiny on the voyage and who was scheduled to be hanged, had been named to the Governing Council. The orders also directed the settlers to choose an inland site for their colony, so the men got back on their ships and began exploring the bay, eventually making their way up the James River. A couple of weeks later, they landed on an island that seemed like a reasonable and easily defendable location. They unloaded the ships and broke ground on their new settlement, which they named Jamestown in honor of their king, James I.

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/04/26

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