As I'm still fighting my own losing battle to catch up (!) I want to fill in all the empty calendar dates with the interesting stops we made on our way to Nova Scotia. Writing this on 4 June, we've been so busy since leaving California, I'll resort to this description and the link to a brief bit of historical information:
This simple farmhouse was situated between Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's headquarters in Greensboro, and Union Gen. William T. Sherman's headquarters in Raleigh. In April 1865, the two commanders met at the Bennett Place, where they signed surrender papers for Southern armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. It was the largest troop surrender of the American Civil War.
