Having grown up in this neck of the woods, and given our family's love of all things presidential, I've been wanting to get the littles down this way for a day trip. With school out for fall break and Hubby out of town with the guard for the long weekend, today was the day!
We headed out mid-morning, and spent most of the day in Crawfordville touring the house, museum and grounds of Liberty Hall, home of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy...
Stephens is buried on the grounds of his beloved retreat...
On the way out of town, we swung by Stephens' birthsite...
And, since we just happened to be in the neighborhood, we took a mini "heritage tour" detour through Washington-Wilkes, the little town that I lived in from the time I was a toddler through elementary school. The littles were amazed that the post office I used to ride my bike to is still a post office, and that the bank where I had a little savings account is still a bank... Oh, and that my primary school is still a school!!! I mean, I'm not George Washington, kids... The 1980s weren't that long ago, were they??? Ha!!!
I can't help but think that maybe my daddy was smiling down on us as his three grandchildren posed proudly in front of his old office building on the square...
...and would you believe that my childhood home is actually for sale???
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