re: #295 Barefoot Grin

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.

You can probably borrow ebook and audiobook versions through your public library (if they’re associated with overdrive .com) using the Libby app. If you want to finish the book…