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Visit to Popes Creek-Washington’s Birthplace

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , on December 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Continuing from our story from yesterday, part of our drive-about included stopping at Washington’s birthplace. It is an interesting visit to see where he was born, although the house no longer exists there is a ground marker where the foundation was and you can see the size…very small for a large family. There is also a Memorial House that is a structure that represents a house of the period. Always interesting to me are the outbuildings….kitchen, barns, weaving rooms, etc. The kitchen house was quite large. Exploring history is still so important…the things we discover…the gratitude we must feel for how far we have come. As Washington said, “How much more delightful….is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it…”

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A President and a Foxhound

Posted in Little Known Facts, Trivia, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2013| 1 Comment »

Washington on Hunt

Washington on Hunt

With all the hoopla surrounding the inauguration this week I have been seeing quite a few blogs and posts about president’s families and their pets.  Did you know that  “George Washington was not just the father of his country.  He was also the ‘father’ of a new breed of dog—the American Foxhound.  Born out of a desire to improve his hunting stock, Washington, with the help of Marquis de Lafayette in France, imported seven massive French hounds and bred them with his own black and tan hounds.  The offspring became the foundation stock of the American Foxhound.  Washington also devoted himself to creating a better, hardier mule and eventually produced some strong blood lines that he distributed throughout the country.”  (Partial repost of an article from PetFoodDirect.  Read it all here.)   And did you also know that the American Foxhound is the state dog of Virginia??!!

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