Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦I meant to share some photos from last weekend's Chautauqua, and never did...so here's a good opportunity...
This was one of the first events on the program, "A Mother's Heart Divided." JoAnn Peterson and her husband Tom presented a story, punctuated with songs from the era, of a mother whose husband fought for the Union and her son for the Confederacy.
It also illustrated the issues of Virginia's withdrawal from the Union, and how objectors to the secession formed the Restored State of Virginia, which later became West Virginia.