Friday, November 29, 2024 Good morning! The first Thanksgiving in English-speaking North America took place in Virginia in 1619. That year, Captain John Woodlief set sail with 37 men on the ship Margaret, eventually landing at Berkeley Hundred on the James River. Their December religious service could be considered the first Thanksgiving commemoration in America. Welcome to […]

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Good morning! On this day in 1864, the Union headquarters ship Greyhound exploded on the James River. The Navy suspected that Confederate fighters had smuggled aboard an explosive shaped like a lump of coal to destroy the boiler. Gen. Benjamin Butler and Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter were on the vessel but […]