Jenny and I got a nice surprise last week: our wedding video arrived!

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Last year's First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge was a huge success, so we're getting read to do it again ( Read more... )

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

― Maya Angelou

The 150th anniversary of the battle of Spotsylvania Court House is coming up in just a few weeks-part of the larger action known as the Overland Campaign. We’re busy at the Ridge getting ready for the commemoration.

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Jennifer Ann Hawkins and I got married yesterday. It was awesome.

We have a different sort of event coming up at Stevenson Ridge this weekend: a big yard sale ( Read more... )

Stevenson Ridge got a nice surprise over the weekend: Washington Post reporter Andrea Sachs stayed "undercover" at the Ridge last week and then wrote up a wonderful piece about her stay for Sunday's Travel section. The Post devoted almost a full page to us ( Read more... )

"In order to make the world more just and fair, you have to make it harder for evil to thrive."

-- David McRaney

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I wanted to like Jeff Shaara’s latest Civil War novel, A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg. Really, I did. It seems like I say that every time I pick one up. After all, I very much appreciate all Shaara has done to generate broad interest in the Civil War, eclipsed in the modern era only by Ken Burns. Also, on the couple of ( Read more... )