Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: travels

  • Virginia Is For (Colonial) Lovers

      At the beginning of June I was lucky enough to be able to travel to Alexandria, VA. to attend a conference at Virginia Theological Seminary. It was a fantastic experience, and I learned so much— but I was also really excited to be staying in a city so rich in history— so after the…

  • October: Pumpkins and Knitting!

            I think fall came this weekend. Suddenly it was chilly and misty, and rainy— there were pumpkins to be had, autumn gardens to explore, some good family time and a new urgency setting in about knitting projects that have been idling for far too long as temperatures rose into the 90s.…

  • Ozark Outing: Visiting the Civil War Battlefield at Pea Ridge

       We were pretty adventurous this weekend, which is so not our style. We are, usually– as Gladys Taber would say– “stay at home birds.”    Saturday morning we ventured over to Arkansas to visit the Civil War Battlefield and national park at Pea Ridge.  Pea Ridge doesnt get as much attention as the sites like…