I’m having so much fun reading about them too! I’m thinking of doing Sarah Winchester or Boudicca next - just people who we tend to forget in our quickly moving times.
Thank you so much for your comments and support, Isabella! I’m grateful for you!
Do you have anyone you might like me to research and write about? Any suggestions?
Yes, it is so interesting to learn more about some of the historical figures that we have forgotten or we don’t know much about. 😊 I have to say that I have not heard of Sarah Winchester, so it would be interesting to learn about her and Boudicca is another great one who I don’t know much about! 🥳
Hummm… I would be interested in reading more about Boudicca and maybe a bit about Jane Austen or even her sister Cassandra as I don’t know much about her! Harriet Tubman is another great historical figure that I enjoy reading about. 😊♡
Well done. I suppose the only thing I’d like to add is that she was raised to be a slave owner as well, and probably couldn’t have wrapped her head around how things would turn out in little more than half a century.
Thank you for this beautiful and interesting article. I am based in the UK, but have some familiarity with Washington’s story. Interesting to see the women behind some of history’s most prominent men. 🙏
Our family moved to Fredericksburg in 1984, for my husband’s job. Our living before that was in college towns, Boulder and Ann Arbor, with our first jobs in Boston. Moving to this small southern town was eye-opening and a difficult adjustment. Somehow the house we bought was kitty-corner to Meditation Rock, on property that had been the Kenmore Plantation, and where George’s sister Elizabeth lived with her husband, Fielding Lewis. That house, just a block away, has been beautifully restored and open to the public. Just a couple blocks away is the house of Mary Washington, also open to the public. She lived an easy walk from her daughter, on the same street as Meditation Rock.
From the time we moved there with our young family, Mary Washington was a fixture of our geography. The little rock outcropping and monument were welcoming and beautiful .. a regular stop on our walks.
As I don’t math well, the math isn’t mathing on when her husband died. It’s 10 years, I think? Also, shades of “Hamilton” with everyone dying. I wonder what her version of “8 wrote my way out” was?
I am so enjoying your wonderful posts about historical figures! I am learning so many new things 😊🤍
I’m having so much fun reading about them too! I’m thinking of doing Sarah Winchester or Boudicca next - just people who we tend to forget in our quickly moving times.
Thank you so much for your comments and support, Isabella! I’m grateful for you!
Do you have anyone you might like me to research and write about? Any suggestions?
Yes, it is so interesting to learn more about some of the historical figures that we have forgotten or we don’t know much about. 😊 I have to say that I have not heard of Sarah Winchester, so it would be interesting to learn about her and Boudicca is another great one who I don’t know much about! 🥳
Hummm… I would be interested in reading more about Boudicca and maybe a bit about Jane Austen or even her sister Cassandra as I don’t know much about her! Harriet Tubman is another great historical figure that I enjoy reading about. 😊♡
Fantastically detailed and yet concise. Only you could do it!
Well done. I suppose the only thing I’d like to add is that she was raised to be a slave owner as well, and probably couldn’t have wrapped her head around how things would turn out in little more than half a century.
Oh indeed! Yes there was so much that was going to change in a relatively short amount of time. The country was so young! Thank you for your comment 🤍
Thank you for this beautiful and interesting article. I am based in the UK, but have some familiarity with Washington’s story. Interesting to see the women behind some of history’s most prominent men. 🙏
Our family moved to Fredericksburg in 1984, for my husband’s job. Our living before that was in college towns, Boulder and Ann Arbor, with our first jobs in Boston. Moving to this small southern town was eye-opening and a difficult adjustment. Somehow the house we bought was kitty-corner to Meditation Rock, on property that had been the Kenmore Plantation, and where George’s sister Elizabeth lived with her husband, Fielding Lewis. That house, just a block away, has been beautifully restored and open to the public. Just a couple blocks away is the house of Mary Washington, also open to the public. She lived an easy walk from her daughter, on the same street as Meditation Rock.
From the time we moved there with our young family, Mary Washington was a fixture of our geography. The little rock outcropping and monument were welcoming and beautiful .. a regular stop on our walks.
Thanks for this wonderful article!
As I don’t math well, the math isn’t mathing on when her husband died. It’s 10 years, I think? Also, shades of “Hamilton” with everyone dying. I wonder what her version of “8 wrote my way out” was?