Congaree National Park sits just outside of Columbia, South Carolina, so we decided to stop on our way back home from Blacksburg. Congaree National Park features over 20,000 acres of old-growth, bottomland hardwood forest. It was created to protect the forest from logging and to preserve an area of what America once looked like. If…
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Recent Reads – October 2018
Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots 1722-1793 – Margaret Pickett I really enjoyed this biography on Eliza Lucas Pinckney. After moving to the United States as a teenager, Eliza spearheaded the cultivation of indigo as a cash crop in South Carolina. She also managed her family’s plantations while her father…
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Life lately – October 2018
Whew. It’s already the second week of October. I feel like once football season starts, the weeks pass by so much more quickly. We spent the weekend in Blacksburg for the Virginia Tech – Notre Dame game. The outcome isn’t quite what we wanted, but we had a great time hanging out with friends and…
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St Marks Lighthouse
The morning of the Virginia Tech – Florida State game, we found ourselves with hours to kill. We had to check out by 11 am, and kickoff was scheduled for 8 pm. We grabbed breakfast at Cracker Barrel and looked for stores that we don’t have in Augusta. After a quick trip to World Market,…
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Easy apple bread
Happy Monday and happy first day of October! It’s in the 80s here today, so I’m ready for fall. I’m also ready for fall baking. Y’all may be in “pumpkin spice everything” season, but I am firmly on team apple. I recently grabbed a bag of apples at the grocery store and headed to my…
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Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
Our final stop on our Georgia National Park Service day trip was Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. Jimmy Carter hails from Plains, Georgia, about a 30 minute drive from Andersonville. The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site includes Jimmy’s childhood home outside of town, their former high school in town, the historic district, a butterfly trail,…