Falmouth, VA

Place Visited: Falmouth, Virginia, USA
Date: February 2018

The White Oak Civil War Museum, just outside Fredericksburg, is a small building filled with a large building's worth of artifacts. The area was a winter encampment (as opposed to a battlefield) and it would seem people have been scavenging pretty much nonstop for the last 150 years. Mountains of bullets and belt buckles and assorted other crap. It offers a clearer understanding of the sheer scale of the conflict than many other Civil War museums I've visited. And I've visited a whole lot.

Falmouth and Goldvein, VA

Place Visited: Falmouth and Goldvein, Virginia, USA

Date: March 2017

I had a lovely outing one sunny spring day to the Gold Mining Museum and Gari Melchers's Belmont Estate.  The gold mining museum was surprisingly hands-on, which was fun, though it felt like it was in the middle of nowhere.  I wasn't familiar with Melchers's work but the location was quite lovely.  On the way home, I had Duck Donuts for the first time.  Definitely worth the stop.