Dead Presidents Tour II

Well, here it is Sunday night again. As befitting the previous titled DPT from about 6 weeks ago, here is a Presidential trivia question. Who is the only President to be buried in the city of Washington, DC? Another hint: we are still in Virginia. Valda & I went to Staunton (pronounced Stanton) VA this weekend and visited the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Museum and Birthplace. It made the 12th Presidential locale we have been to. It is always fascinating seeing where and how they lived. WW was born in Staunton and only lived there for a year, but his roots are there and so is his Library. It is a pretty unassuming home compared to some we've seen, but it has its place in history, and the town seems to really support that fact.

Later on Saturday, we drove on the Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah NP. Drove about 60 miles or so but was disappointed in the scenery. The air was thick with haze and the views were not up to what we've seen elsewhere. I guess Al Gore might be on to something.

Sunday we got up and went to see James Madison's Montpelier near Orange, VA. For those of you who have been there before, the organization that owns Montpelier started a complete restoration of the home back to the time the JM died there, 1836. They have removed all the additions to the house by the duPont Family (additions that tripled the size of the house that Madison built), and have completely gutted the inside. It wasn't quite what we expected, but the tour was fascinating in its own right. The outside is pretty much complete, but there is a lot of landscaping yet to be done. They expect to be completed in two years. I'll have to go back. He made Presidential locale # 13.

I doubt we'll get up to see Mount Vernon. It's about 250 miles away and we are running out of weekends. Maybe another time. Okay, the answer to the trivia question is Woodrow Wilson, or as his mother knew him, Thomas Wilson. He dropped his first name for some unknown reason when he went to college. He is buried in the National Cathedral, and no, JFK is buried in Arlington Cemetery...in Virginia.