Often overcast, humid and since Sunday afternoon, warm, often raining, the air is oxygen rich.
Since C'town, we've visited significant sites on the Historic Bancroft Slave Breeding and Trading Industry Tour in Alexandria, Richmond, on the James River plantations and Monticello. Bancroft's Slave Breeding and the Slave Trade in the Old South (1931), the classic work of stats breaking out year-by-year, decade-by-decade, state-by-state, the natural increase and the de-population of the upper south and the un-natural increase of African Americans then in the lower and western south, has been serving as guidebook. It still works ....
Today is our last in Virginia. We spent the night in a non-chain lovely old place called the English Inn in Charlottesville. We had a ridiculous dinner with our historian friend who lives here. Due the controversy around his Master of the Mountain, he was surprised to learn it's in the Monticello gift shop bookstore after all. We are being taken on a tour of UVA in a short time. Then we will hit the road, going along the James river to the founding site of Jamestown (where there isn't anything really, just the sight, then Williamsburg - William and Mary.
As another friend says, who builds the amplifiers for telescopes such as the Very Large Array, who grew up here too, "If it wasn't for the knucklehead, this would be paradise on earth."
O, and yes. The cicadas are out at Monticello.
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