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W&L Campus

29 Saturday May 2010

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Lale and I visited Washington and Lee today while Shattuck enjoyed playing with his grandparents in Cleveland, MS.




Lale in front of Lee’s Chapel.



Gen. Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveller.



If I was an artist like you, I would draw a true picture of Traveller; representing his fine proportions, muscular figure, deep chest, short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head, broad forehead, delicate ears, quick eye, small feet, and black mane and tail. Such a picture would inspire a poet, whose genius could then depict his worth, and describe his endurance of toil, hunger, thirst, heat and cold; and the dangers and suffering through which he has passed. He could dilate upon his sagacity and affection, and his invariable response to every wish of his rider. He might even imagine his thoughts through the long night-marches and days of the battle through which he has passed. But I am no artist Markie, and can therefore only say he is a Confederate gray.

– Robert E. Lee, letter to Markie Williams


(below) Lale standing outside Lee’s tomb in Lee’s Chapel on campus.  Right outside the doors is where Traveller was buried.

The stable where he lived his last days, directly connected to the Lee House on campus, traditionally stands with its doors left open; this is said to allow his spirit to wander freely. 




Lexington is a very pretty town.



Virginia Military Institute is next door to W&L.



(below) Lale standing in front of Gen. George Marshall.

During the 1947 session of the Delta Council (on Delta State’s campus), Dean Acheson (Under-Secretary of State in Truman’s administration) delivered a speech on campus that unveiled the Marshall Plan, detailing postwar relief for Europe.






(below)  Lale in front of Stonewall Jackson’s statue.  He taught on campus before the Civil War.  I had to wonder if VMI was ever able to have Gen. Lee from the campus next door come over as a guest speaker from time-to-time while he was President of W&L?


Monticello

28 Friday May 2010

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Shattuck is home in Cleveland, MS with his Grandparents.   Lale and I are in Charlottesville, VA for Evans Wilson’s wedding.


Lale, Bond and I drove up yesterday from Memphis.  Today he is studying for the CFA (level II) while Cooper, Lale, and I went to Monticello (Thomas Jefferson’s Roman neoclassical home located overlooking Charlottesville).




Because Jefferson died more than $107,000 in debt, his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph and her son and financial manager, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, found it necessary first to sell nearly all of the contents of Monticello and then to sell the plantation itself. In 1827, the furniture, animals, farm equipment, and slaves were offered at an executor’s sale. In 1831, James T. Barclay, a local apothecary, purchased the home and 552 acres for $4,500, less the value of his own home. Unsuccessful in his attempts to cultivate silk worms there, he offered Monticello for sale barely two years later.

In 1834, Uriah P. Levy, a naval officer who admired Jefferson’s views on religious tolerance, purchased the house. Levy died in 1862 and bequeathed Monticello to the government if certain conditions were met. During the Civil War, the Confederacy seized and sold the property. After the war, the government declined the terms of Levy’s request, and Levy’s heirs contested the ownership. Not until years of litigation had passed did Jefferson Monroe Levy, Uriah P. Levy’s nephew, take possession in 1879. Both uncle and nephew strove to preserve Monticello as a memorial to Jefferson. In 1923, Jefferson Monroe Levy sold Monticello to the newly created Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns Monticello today.



Lale sat down in the sun parlor as if she was a guest of Mr.  Jefferson’s.











(below) Cooper found the beer cave under the house.  A dumb waiter took beer and wine up to the dining room.



How is this for a smoker West?  Mr. Jefferson had a built in smoke house.







During his 80s, Jefferson used to come out to this veranda with a glass of medeira to watch his new university being built in the valley below.  Our hotel is directly across campus from The University of Virginia.






















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After visiting the home, we visited his grave down the hill.  His family line is still being buried there today.  Most recently in 2008.

Uncle Gray

17 Monday May 2010

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Shattuck and I were playing in the front yard with the dogs when Uncle Gray drove up.  He was in Memphis from New Orleans seeing his customers in Milington, TN.  Shattuck saw Gray and started running away.











So we took Shattuck this weekend to see Gray and Shelley in New Orleans.  We rented a room at the Terrell House on Magazine St.  The best place to stay in New Orleans.
























Magnolia

02 Sunday May 2010

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Last week, we had Shattuck’s Great Great Grandmother’s painting cleaned.  I googled her name to see if I could find anything about her art club.  A recent article from The Daily Corinthian said one of her paintings was being auctioned at a home tour.   The date was last weekend.  I was disappointed until I learned the show / auction had been postponed until this weekend.   I drove through the storm we were experiencing in Memphis to make sure I bought it.  This painting reminds me of being in Rosedale, MS at Granny’s house in the early 1980’s.  I hope Shattuck likes it.
I picked up this one as well entitled ‘Pittsburg Landing – Shiloh’ by artist Tom Booth.  Tom was born in Northampton, England and came to the United States in 1957.  He has lived in London, Toronto, Los Angles, Portland, Frankfurt, Chicago, Denver and Corinth.  Tom became and American citizen after moving to Corinth.

Tom Booth’s art reflects his view of reality –

In this basic black universe, here we fortunate find ourselves on a rare sapphire
of a planet 8 light minutes away from a mediocre star whose light makes this place,
whether slum or mountain peak,absolutely beautiful.

An artist member of Chicago’s prestigious Palette and Chisel Club and the Denver Art Student League. Tom, up until he moved to Corinth, made his home in Denver, CO.  The beauties of ‘this place’ are reflected in his paintings of the American West resting in the afterglow of the frontier and it’s Heros.  As he says, “To a painter, the West is just as magnificent today as when Bierstadt and Morgan painted it a hundred and thirty years ago.  As a resident of Corinth, Tom vivid green landscapes as well as Civil War architecture of Mississippi.  His paintings hang today in many business and private collections in the USA and England.

Shattuck is getting ready for Church.

St. John’s Episcopal Church has the sweetest people in it’s Mother’s Day Out.  Shattuck loves going twice a week.
The St. John’s Mother’s Day Out Toddler Tattle (04/30/3010):

Shattuck has gotten to be so busy.  Today he was put in time out for fighting and
know he start yelling at us.   He stuck his finger out like he meant and went to
talking.  We couldn’t understand what he was saying but Eve truly new he meant
it.  He made everyone start laughing.  He truly can bring the sun out on a cloudy
day.  You guys have a lovely weekend.  Ms. Tameka

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