O Is for Old Dominion: A Virgina Alphabet Book

"Honesty Is The First Chapter Of The Book Wisdom."

"I Am Not An Virginian, I'm A American. - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death."

"Those Who Don't Work, Don't Eat."

"I Have No Private Purpose To Accomplish, No Party Objectives To Build Up, No Enemies To Punish-Nothing To Serve But My Country."

"Let Us Cross Over The River, And Rest Under The Shade Of The Trees."



Bird: Cardinal
Dog: American Foxhound
Fish: Brook Trout
Flag of Virginia
Flower: American Dogwood
Motto: "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (Thus Always to Tyrants)
Nickname: The Old Dominion; Mother of Presidents
Song: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
State Seal
Tree: Flowering Dogwood


TRAVELED TO // Arlington Cemetery - Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond, The Emancipation Oak - Four Port Cities, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, And Newport News, Assateague Island, Luray Caverns - Kings Dominion - Monticello, Pentagon, The Tidewater, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach - University Of Virginia - Yorktown
MET ALONG THE WAY // Robert E. Lee, Booker T. Washington, Mary Peake, George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Sir William Berkeley, John Rolfe & Pocahontas, Elizabeth I, Stonewall Jackson, Arthur Ashe, Ella Fitzgerald, Zachary Taylor,