Bragg Family South

And what has Beth so dismayed, while Stephen and Hope have big smiles?  Why, the Wade Clock Museum (https://www.visit.msstate.edu/clockmuseum/) at Mississippi State University!  We walked through this neat if rather unusual venue while waiting for Kenny's campus tour at MSU.  This was the first stop on our Thanksgiving week adventure east... After a long drive in a driving rain, we arrived in Virginia.  Because of how much driving we had to reach our first main objective, we didn't stop and see too many places.  We did, however, make a stop at a curious (if underwhelming) winery near "Peaks of Otter", and then a short drive to Thomas Jefferson's nearby personal retreat called "Poplar Forest" (https://www.poplarforest.org/).  While most people will be more familiar with his main home, Monticello, Poplar Forest is an architectural gem that provided us a number of insights into this complicated man: The picture above is in the dining room in his P...

  How's this handsome young man?  Kenny proudly displays his band uniform on Senior Recognition Night...a rather cold yet gratifying even (just look at his beaming mother!).  After 4 years of high school marching band, and 7 years total, Kenny took his last march on the Monticello High School football stadium...and will hopefully continue this on in college. My October was travel filled, with two too many trips to Atlanta and its joyous traffic: We also got a nice, if brief, concert from the first violinist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and a piano professor from one of the state's universities: And Beth and her classmates entertained guests as a part of the Monticello High School's spirit week: UAM also had their homecoming football game on a gorgeous afternoon for tailgating.  Below, we watched the UAM band bring up the football team: And here I am, back in Atlanta for the second of my trips there in October: Thank goodness...