Winter Church

[skyring]

One of the highlights of my January visit to Washington DC was a side trip to Richmond, where I met the delightful sparky-redhead and had an all-too brief tour of the historic city, releasing a few books along the way, including inside the church where Patrick Henry made his famous "liberty or death" speech. I rarely get the chance to stand where history was made, but perhaps that one speech made all the difference to our modern world, swaying the delegates of this Virginia convention to vote for resistance to King George III, with all the consequences following. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were in the audience.

As you know, I'm a frequent contributor to Wikipedia, where my tastes lie more in the direction of stamping on errors and egos than in adding to the body of knowledge, but I discovered to my surprise that this church had no specific article written. Usually if I think of something, I find that some other editor has been there before me and done the job with pictures and references, but I got in first with this one. It's not the greatest article in the world, but it is linked into the rest of Wikipedia and contains a picture I took during my visit.

If anyone wants to know why I have "itchy feet' it is because I enjoy seeing the places where history was made, the places mentioned in my favorite books, and above all, meeting my friends.

Comments

[bookczuk.livejournal.com]

Bravo!

Give me Wikipedia or give me...um...can I rethink that for a moment????

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

A plate of Markeroni? ;-)

This is why I love Markeroni so much - the actual going around and finding out all these snippets of history - often quite obscure - frequently fascinating.