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The Historic Polegreen Church Foundation preservation site in Hanover, VA celebrates and interprets the birth of First Amendment religious freedoms. Patrick Hnery was an early congregant. Check out our web site -- historicpolegreen.org

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Visit my new page -- HistoricPolegreen.Tumblr.com -- it's going to spotlight early development of religious and civil liberties -- things that we enjoy and perhaps take for granted today -- in Virginia Colony during the mid-1700s. This recent photo evocatively recreates the site of the original Polegreen Church just outside Metro Richmond, Virginia.

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HISTORY MATTERS -- a short (1:34) "teaser" video I did recently to introduce the Historic Polegreen Church Foundation's iconic site in Hanover County, Virginia. To learn more about Polegreen and its history (it begins in 1747), visit us on Facebook @Polegreen, or on the Web at HistoricPolegreen.org.

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Been gone too long...

Hello, Tumblr! I'm back on the air. Just testing to make sure all is still working the way it should. New stuff in the works! ... stay tuned. --Doug

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Reconciliation

The Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, Virginia is dicated to those who served the Confederacy in the American Civil War. It is located on historic grounds.

Just behind it and to the northwest is a classic structure that was a home for Confederate widows and daughters of  Confederate soldiers.  Today it is a part of the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The VMFA’s world-class expanded…

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Reconciliation

This is the Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated to those who served the Confederacy in the American Civil War, it is located on historic grounds. Just behind it and to the northwest is a classic structure that was a home for Confederate widows and daughters of  Confederate soldiers. Today it is a part of the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The VMFA’s world-class…

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Reconciliation

This is the Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated to those who served the Confederacy in the American Civil War, it is located on historic grounds. Just behind it and to the northwest is a classic structure that was a home for Confederate widows and daughters of  Confederate soldiers. Today it is a part of the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

  The VMFA’s world-class…

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Reconciliation's Face

Reconciliation’s Face

This is the Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated to those who served the Confederacy in the American Civil War, it is located on historic grounds. Just behind it and to the northwest is a classic structure that was a home for Confederate widows and daughters of  Confederate soldiers. Today it is a part of the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The VMFA’s world-class…

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Reconciliation's face

Reconciliation’s face

This is the Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated to those who served the Confederacy in the American Civil War, it is located on historic grounds. Just behind it and to the northwest is a classic structure that was a home for Confederate widows and daughters of  Confederate soldiers. Today it is a part of the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The VMFA’s world-class…

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Reconciliation's face

Reconciliation’s face

This is the Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated to those who served the Confederacy in the American Civil War, it is located on historic grounds. Just behind it and to the northwest is a classic structure that was a home for Confederate widows and daughters of  Confederate soldiers. Today it is a part of the nearby Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The VMFA’s world-class…

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Remembering

ARE YOU THERE?

Does your flag yet fly?

Does your candle flicker for someone, some cause, some reverence, memory, hope, or love?

In your heart of hearts, why do you rise each day and go about your business, work, trials and ambitions?

Or do you care? Do you just get up and put one foot in front of the other all day long, unseeing even around the next corner, much less the life around you?

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Now I…

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Remember

ARE YOU THERE?

  Does your flag yet fly?

  Does your candle flicker for someone, some cause, some reverence, memory, hope, or love?

  In your heart of hearts, why do you rise each day and go about your business, work, trials and ambitions?

  Or do you care? Do you just get up and put one foot in front of the other all day long, unseeing even around the next corner, much less the life around you?

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Remember

ARE YOU THERE?

Does your flag yet fly?

Does your candle flicker for someone, some cause, some reverence, memory, hope, or love?

In your heart of hearts, why do you rise each day and go about your business, work, trials and ambitions?

Or do you care? Do you just get up and put one foot in front of the other all day long, unseeing even around the next corner, much less the life around you?

┼

Now I…

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Book Review: Flight Behavior by Barabara Kingsolver

Book Review: Flight Behavior by Barabara Kingsolver

Flight Behavior has a great deal to say about many of the hot buttons we all must confront one day, whether we like it or not. Topics like global climate change, family dynamics, dollar-greed’s potential for wreckage, education’s value, even the survival of the species … and much more. But pedantic it is not. Rather it is one of those gems of literate writing that’s hard to put down.

Set in the…

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Life after leaf

When my maple tree gave up its leaves last fall. I had a strange new thought. Once the leaves died, what of their essence?  Was it as with us? “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return,” as the Book of Common Prayer puts it. Or was there some sort of middle life for leaves: a time when their multiple colors turn to brown before we rake them up and they too return to the dust of…

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Books can be weapons

Books can be weapons

Earlier this year, CIA documents detailing how it used Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago to discredit the Soviet system were declassified.  The Washington Post summarized the effort in a story linked here.

As many book fans know, Zhivago is the story of a Russian physician and poet and his life between the Russian revolution of 1905 and World War II. It is not kind to the Soviet system of…

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Sunset after the storms

Sunset after the storms

  Dawn may get all the publicity,

all the poetry,

but at the end of this day,

following nearly a week of storms,

this sunset  looked mighty good.