I have several BIG announcements coming up next week, but they will have to wait as I am still playing catch-up at the office, finalizing my church class on 'Stonewall' Jackson and preparing for my talk on the positive role of religion in the Civil War at Manassas Museum on Monday. In the meantime here is something to ponder… Many of us are CWPT members and/or members of other battlefield preservation groups. Living here in Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania I have seen firsthand the best and worst in regards to development.

On vacation last week I returned a few hundred yards down the shore to revisit a site I had photographed last year. This photo on the left was taken along Atlantic Beach N.C. a mile or so near the site of the shipwrecked SS Pevensey, a blockade-runner serving the Confederacy that went down a few miles from Fort Macon. (The child is my youngest daughter.) Beach homes now dominate the entire shoreline area where the Pevensey's Roadside Marker sits. The photo on the right was taken just last week and captures $600k+ condos that now suffocate the entire inland horizon. And I thought we had it bad here in Virginia!