Additions

This campground, Americamps RV Resort in Ashland, Virginia, has much better wi-fi reception than the one we were staying in the last two nights so I thought I would catch up on some of the photos that I was not able to put in the blog. But first, the obligatory Rest Area picture.

Virginia Rest Area in I-64.  Nice, but the Rest Stops in North Carolina were more polished.

Remember Saturday when we went to the geo-site in Virginia, The Natural Bridge?  Here are some pictures that didn't make Saturday's blog.

Pleasant walkway on the Cedar Creek Trail to Lace Falls.

Panorama picture of the Indian Village that was along the Trail.

This was a waterfall along the steps that took us down into the gorge.

And yesterday, when we went to Washington and Lee University and VMI?

Rose Window in the R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church.

A longer view of the recumbent statue of Gen. Lee in the Lee Chapel & Museum.

Stately buildings on the Washington and Lee Campus.

Entrance plaque to VMI.

Statue of Gen. George Marshall, who also served as Secretary of State after WWII and organized the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe. He was a VMI alumnus.

Finally, the Rhode Island (Providence) connection for Sunday.  While we were visiting the Lee Chapel & Museum I struck up a conversation with a docent in the Museum.  I was asking after Merrily Taylor, the Brown Librarian, who, I believe, left Brown to take the Library position at Washington and Lee University maybe 10 years ago.  Don, the docent, has only been at Washington and Lee for one year so he had no memory of Merrily, but it did tell us about what he knew of Providence, Rhode Island. Housed in one of the four faculty homes built in 1842, the Reeves Center is now a center for research into and exhibition of porcelain and paintings that Mr. and Mrs. Euchlin D. Reeves, of Providence, RI, collected and donated to the University.  Paintings and watercolors by Mrs. Reeves hang in the Gallery and throughout the building.  The Reeves Center, housing this collection of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century ceramics, is open to the public, only not on Sunday so we were unable to visit.  Don showed us a book of the Reeves Collection and it is massive and comprehensive. Euchlin Reeves was an alumnus of Washington and Lee University and was a lawyer. They owned two houses on Benevolent Street; one house just to hold their collections.