The View from Squirrel Ridge

Civil War Field Trip Near Romney, WV We stopped at an air strip along WV Route 8 near the Romney bridge. Some members of our car-caravan had...

Professor Poland devotes an extraordinary amount of effort to pack education into his history field trips. In addition to research, he makes...

Just south of Mount Jackson, Virginia stands this marker. In the distance you can see the present-day bridge over the North Fork of the Shen...

In the Shenandoah Valley between Mount Jackson and New Market rises Rude's Hill, scene of several incidents during the Civil War. A pair...

Lucky the Cat

Professor Poland had arranged a tour of a marvelous historic house in Moorefield and the owner very generously shared the history of the hom...

On the day that our class studied McNeill's Rangers, we drove to Moorefield, WV, where John Hanson McNeill organized the unit. Here we w...

In Moorefield, West Virginia, there's a marker with facts about "General Joseph Neville" (American Revolution) on one side and...

I think Froggie went a courtin' by singing in our pond. Click the arrow to listen. It was too dark to get much in the way of of visuals ...

I started this blog five years ago , inspired by my daughter Marie's blog . Since this is my 2500th post, I'm averaging 500 posts a ...

Markers At Visitor's Center Wardensville, WV Between the two historical markers in Wardensville is a new sign telling about Wardensville...

My long-time history professor is in the hospital recovering his strength after having a pacemaker implanted. We wish him the best! I'v...

Over the past couple of years I've received a few emails about the Battle of Piedmont . I see that a tour is planned for July 31-August...

On a recent field trip Professor Charles Poland read the words of John Singleton Mosby at the site of his final meeting with the 43rd Batta...

I've completed the fifth and final lesson for Virtual University's class in beginning Paint Shop Pro™. These are graphics I made us...

For one of the exercises in my Paint Shop Pro class, I created this little graphic. It combines several techniques and some "picture t...

Passage Creek winds between steep canyon walls in Elizabeth Furnace Recreation Area, George Washington National Forest. I posted photos of i...

Wow, it's June already! The months go by quickly! Many of my May posts were related to the Civil War Reenactment in New Market . It was ...

Among the pictures I took at the reenactment in New Market were two that showed a soldier who appears to be of Asian descent. When I looked...

Near Aldie, Virginia Mt. Zion has stood near Aldie and Gilbert's Corner since 1851. You might easily miss it because a traffic circle h...