Tag: History and Culture

For the beauty of the earth

For the beauty of the earth,  for the glory of the skies,  for the love which from our birth  over and around us lies.  Christ, our Lord, to you we raise  this, our hymn of grateful praise.  Fol­li­ot S. Pier­point Saturday I took a drive up through the Shenandoah Valley to Luray Caverns.  No, not …

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Springtime in Virginia

“On the whole I find nothing any where else in point of climate which Virginia need envy to any part of the world . . . . Spring and autumn, which make a paradise of our country, are rigorous winter with them [New Englanders] . . . . When we consider how much climate contributes …

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