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The Blue Ridge Mountain Mill

The Mabry Mill “Down on the old mill stream” goes the song of long ago. A really great treat is to visit an old mill, such as the old Mabry Mill. It’s right on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, and looks like a perfect Currier and Ives painting. At […]

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Old Stones of the Pharaohs

The Nile is Egypt, and Egypt is the Nile. Great kingdoms have flourished in Egypt for thousands of years. In fact, the glory period of the pharaohs reached its peak hundreds of years before the Vikings discovered North America, and still life goes on in a narrow belt of fertile […]

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