Flogging Babel

. Richmond, Virginia is indelibly connected to Edgar Alan Poe, much to its civic disgust. Every building the man ever lived in there ...

. (This post should properly have been made yesterday. Mea culpa.  I only just now found an online editing tool to make the photo fit ...

. Down a quiet road in a remote part of Gloucester County, Virginia, is the tiny house that was the birthplace of Walter Reed.  Reed ...

. On the bank of the York River, in a still-remote part of Gloucester County, Virginia, that was a heaven for his small daughters, ...

. Yesterday, Marianne and I went to Roanoke Island, site of the lost Roanoke Colony, the earliest and most enduring mystery of post-C...

. Okay, yes,   Wilbur and Orville Wright  made their first flights from Kill Devil Hills, not Kitty Hawk and Kitty Hawk only got the c...

. Officially, it's called the Wallops Flight Facility but I've never heard anyone call it anything but Wallops Island. It'...