USO Canteen FReeper Style....Liberty R&R Goes to Virginia Join Us .......July 6,2002

Aquamarine and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

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Monticello.......Thomas Jefferson’s home

The Blueridge Mountians of Virginia

Virginia Beach

The wonderful Daffodil Festival in Gloucester, Virginia

Music performed by the Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg. Tap your toes to the exhilarating martial music that marked the routine of military troops during the 18th century and sent the patriots marching into battle.

A large area of the town of Williamsburg consists of buildings preserved from Colonial times, i.e. from before the Declaration of American Independence in 1776.

Think of the Williamsburg Area... and the images that come to mind are...

`Small Town' Colonial Life...

the Search for American Independence...

the Model for Democracy used throughout the world.

Enjoy a 'Cold One' in the same Taverns where the likes of Tommy Jefferson and Patrick ("Give me liberty, or give me death") Henry, argued over the fate of a super power's Colony… and their lives.

College of William & Mary - Second oldest Institution of Higher Education in the Nation… with today, Graduates from all over the world. There is where Thomas Jefferson and some of his buddies went to school.

Don't forget to ask about the friendly ghost that's been dropping by the Wren Building for several Centuries.

College of William & Mary... which was the school to young law students like Thomas Jefferson.

The second oldest institution of higher learning in the United States... William & Mary began the Honor Society that was based on individual Responsibility... as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Society... which recognized and acknowledged individual Excellence.

The College's Wren Building, was constructed in 1695.

Williamsburg Historic District - the political and intellectual Capitol of England's colony in the New World. Where the ideas and ferment originated for the modern concept of Democracy now used throughout the world. Authentic reconstruction's, shows, exhibits, interpreters. Referred to as the 'Largest Living Museum in the World'.

It was here that the colonists (and their `legislators' who were permitted to make recommendations to the King)... began to understand that they did not have to be ruled by a foreign power... but could manage their own country under rules which they themselves developed by community consensus (discussions and voting).

Walk through and actually dine in the same Taverns... where the arguments took place between the `Crown Loyalists'... and the `Revolutionaries'... and where the concepts that became the America Constitution were discussed by the likes of George Washington and Patrick Henry ("Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death").

Then let's take a little trip over to Yorktown.

Yorktown is still the small little village on the York River where a Revolution ended… setting the stage for a New American Nation to begin.

Yorktown may be a tiny village, but it's important in American history because the definitive battle of the American Revolution was won by George Washington there in 1781. After Lord Cornwallis surrendered his huge army to the American and French allies on October 19, 1781, Britain soon appealed for peace. As a result, the 13 colonies emerged into the United States of America.

We can’t forget a visit to Jamestown.......the first English Settlement in the 'New World'… now some 400 years old. See authentic replicas of the boats that crossed the ocean seeking religious freedoms and opportunities.

Th time in sheer wonderment at the resolve and fears of men, women and children crossing an Ocean in a Susan B. Constant... a small boat that today, seems like an oversize mini van.

Roughly 400 years ago, on December 20, 1606, three merchant ships loaded with passengers and cargo embarked from England on a voyage that would later set the course of American history.

The Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery reached Virginia in the spring of 1607, and on May 14, their 104 passengers all men and boys began building on the banks of the James River what was to be America's first permanent English colony, predating Plymouth in Massachusetts by 13 years.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Happy America's birthday weekend Canteen thread! Music, history, geography, art...civics, have yhou considered applying for federal ed. $$$$? (^:

John Peter Muhlenberg

(He was elected as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1774, and was a 30-year-old pastor who preached on the Christian's responsibility to be involved in securing freedom for America. He was the son of Henry Muhlenberg, one of the founders of the Lutheran Church in America.)

In 1775, after preaching a message on Ecclesiastes 3:1, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven," John Peter Muhlenberg closed his message by saying:

"In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight."

He then threw off his robes to reveal the uniform of a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. That afternoon, at the head of 300 men, he marched off to join General Washington's troops, becoming Colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment. He served until the end of the war being promoted to the rank of Major-general. In 1785 he became the Vice-President of Pennsylvania and in 1790 was a member ofthe Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. He then served as a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania and in 1801 was elected to the U. S. Senate.

Chuck Baldwin Live.com

[SAMWolf]

Wait a minute nobody told me there was going to be a test!
It's not fair!

[Aquamarine]

Lady, as usual your writing is impeccable!

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Linda,this is neat, thank you so much for this about John Paul Jones.And the Anniversary of the Republican party too.I love what you did Linda. Thank you so much.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Aquamarine, isn't this wonderful. I just love all the posts and information.

Thank you Aquamarine, I love the pictures you found so much.

[Snow Bunny]

This is a little something from everyone at the USO Canteen FReeper Style for you Militiaman7.Thank you for serving our country and being a FReeper Friday Veteran.

[Snow Bunny]

LOL....hahhahahahaa

Hi Tom, you funny.

[SAMWolf]

Good Evening Snow Bunny. You and Aquaqmarine turned in another fine Thread.

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Ragtime Cowgirl, thank you.hahahaa...federal money.

Thank you for your post my friend.

[Aquamarine]

Thank you SB. It's good to see you. Did you have some computer problems?

[COB1]

"There will be a test at the end of the year."

LOL!
There ain't nuthin' in life free, is there?

[COB1]

Thank y'all for the encouragement about my idea.
I've been preparing to start that project by studying different ways to present it.
That will be my retirement project.

[LadyX]

It is easy to describe things about which one is passionate!
I've been up and down the entire Eastern seaboard and into Canada - lived in the midwest, Ohio (twice) - South Dakota a year and then driving around the top of the Rockies to go to Fairbanks for 3 1/2, plus my Florida several times, South Carolina (4 times), North Carolina (twice), Virginia (two places), and Rochester, New York (twice).

I could easily have described the ever so friendly Canadians and the sights driving through and then the length of the Alaska Highway.
Spent New Year's Day 1963 having dinner at an historic hotel right next to Mile Zero of it, with two other American couples with whom we convoyed as far as Tok Junction in Alaska - 17 of us in all, including my just turned 3-months old baby girl!

Saw the small house in Canada where Robert Service penned The Shooting of Dan Megrew, exactly like the sketch of it I found on an article about it.
There were incredible vistas atop the Rockies with pristine frozen lakes, reflecting Dall sheep dotting the heights above.

In the sparsely populated Yukon Territory at a lonely outpost combining a home, garage and gasoline pumps, the owner asked if our two boys (8 & 9) would like to see a wolf he'd shot the day before.

He'd slung it over a very high rafter in the garage, a rope binding its hind legs.
WHOA!! It was so big its nose nearly touched the ground - about the size of a Shetland pony.
Made my German shepherd look life a small stuffed animal!
He had kept it for the bounty of (then) $100 for turning in an ear to the Canadian Government.
Go ahead and SCREAM, PETA, SCREAM!! -
I do believe he was more interested in preserving homo sapiens!!..:)))

We drove back down the Rockies and across Texas - remember vividly having been in refrigerator climates for 4 1/2 years and getting into Texas 105 degree temps (no a/c in the van), and remarking, "WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE HERE??!!" - LOL (sorry, kind of, SpookBrat and SassyMom!)

Stopped at Vicksburg and could almost smell gunpowder wafting through the heavy, stifling air - on to Florida to visit relatives (my home state) and then up to Myrtle Beach, SC, our destination.

I love America and Canada!

[HiJinx]

I wish it was open! Still had fun at the wedding, though. I got to see a lot of people I used to work with, and the buffet was good...roast beef, salmon, and Chicken Kiev...and the Michelob was cold!

Back to the Canteen now! I'm still back here at #225, what's goin' on?

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you Sam.

I just rebooted three times.

It is fun to do threads together. I love that the Canteen is from everyone to our troops....from our hearts to theirs.

[LadyX]

((eyes blurred and crossed from all the previews to get it right!..:))
Life = like on the German shepherd part))

[SAMWolf]

Starting to think Open Bars are a thing of the past.

Something is going on, the ladies are being nice to me, they're up to something!

Great thread on Virginia today.