DIGGING THE PAST ON THE ROAD

Here's some photos from my history-related travels.

Book collection of John Adams on display in Boston.

Old North Church, Boston, of Paul Revere fame.

"Old Ironsides," the USS Constitution in Boston. 

Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson's private getaway. 

 

Thomas Jefferson's brick outhouse at Poplar Forest.

The Presidential box at Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was assassinated.

Historic Gage Hotel in Marathon, Texas.

Guest rooms at the Gage Hotel.

City cemetery in Terlinqua, Texas.

Ancient corn grinding holes, Big Bend National Park.

Cannon on the Confederate line, Gettysburg.

Closeup of the Virginia monument at Gettysburg.

Surratt's Tavern, Clinton, MD, where John Wilkes Booth stopped as he fled Washington.

Barboursville Plantation, home of a Virginia governor, designed by Thomas Jefferson.

FOLLOW THE BLOG

Here's some of my favorite history blogs.  I hope you will check them out.

http://historythrutheages.blogspot.com/

HISTORY THRU THE AGES

Donna Schlacter is a writer and her blog provides great information for anyone writing historical fiction.  Some of her recent blog posts include 'Horse Drawn Buggys,' Medicine in the 1890s,' and 'One Hundred Years of Toys.'


http://www.guardianoftheartifacts.blogspot.com/

GUARDIAN OF THE ARTIFACTS

Lori Eggleston is a curator at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.  She cares for the artifacts in the museum’s collection and tell some of their back stories in her blog.