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New portrait, presidential history unveiled at Omni Homestead Resort

HOT SPRINGS, Va. (WFXR) — In honor of Presidents Day, The Omni Homestead hosted a weekend full of events and unveiled a portrait of former President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt served as the 26th President of the U.S. and his signature was recently discovered in a guest book belonging to The Pillars. This is a home […]

Christmas and the Boy Reader

There were always books for Christmas. Mounds of them: flurries of paperbacks, drifts of presentation copies inscribed in the unreadably copperplate hand of maiden great aunts, avalanches of books on chess, and manuals of do-it-yourself chemistry experiments using household items! And teach-yourself sleight-of-hand magic guides, and the not all-that-gratefully-received Latin to English and English to Latin! dictionary. The already-too-childish children's chapter books, from distant acquaintances of our parents. The popular Victorian and Edwardian fiction, adult stories that had somehow moved down the reader's scale to be thought of as proper for young readers, marketed to harried uncles seeking something in last-minute bookstores: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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