Category: Washington, DC

  • In Search of the Lost Symbol

    Yesterday was a beautiful day for the Charlottesville Senior Center “Washington On Your Own” trip! Having received the new Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol on my Kindle (at 12:01 am!) on Tuesday morning, I was really eager to start looking for the clues mentioned in the book.  Walt and I started at the new…

  • What Would Thomas Jefferson Think?

    The Newseum in Washington, DC, has posted an article entitled “Newspapers in peril: What would Jefferson think? ”  Although he would deplore the recent decline of the print news media: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…