re: #277 ckkatz

Sounds like you live in the Fredricksburg, Virginia area.

I have always found that area fascinating.

As a resident, you know the below. But for other of our esteemed lizards…

For much of the American Civil War, it was the equidistant power point between Washington DC and Richmond, Va. And it was George Washington’s childhood rambling grounds. So there are a lot of historic sites.

For the past 30 years it has been rapidly suburbanizing and a lot has changed there.

Plus, there is a lot of nice touristy stuff in the area. Although the store that caused the most amusement the last time I drove through was the “Sorry Mom Tattoo Shop”.

ETA - Typos… We got lots of typos!

I read (most of) Chernow’s bio of Washington this summer (until I left the book at my parents’ home half the country away). I didn’t know anything about GW’s mother and learned that he basically put her up in Fredricksburg from whence she regularly complained of his financial negligence in barely literate letters to Mount Vernon. Kind of funny to think that there is a university named after her. That’s all I know. We stopped there once when we lived outside of Richmond, but we just went to the battlefield, as I recall.