It’s Tye River Tuesday, and in today’s post we’re going into and all the way to the bottom of the Tye River. Nearly a year ago, on September 27th 2024, the remnants of Hurricane Helene, which a day earlier…
LATITUDE ZERO – Musings on the Equator
The September Equinox is here. It is one of the two dates every year in which the Sun ‘passes’ directly over the Equator, the divider of hemispheres – Latitude Zero˚. Ecuador rightly celebrates its position on the Equator and at…
THE FOUNDATION OF JAMES MONROE’S HIGHLAND
James Monroe was America’s 5th president and at the beginning of the 19th century he called Highland, an antebellum plantation in Virginia’s Blue Ridge foothills, home. In 1825, saddled by personal debt, Monroe sold the Highland estate and over the…