The book is finally out. Thanks to everyone who assisted me in this project. It took a bit longer than I hoped, but there were some factors out of my control. I have some copies that I have been giving out to people I know and for promotional purposes. Those copies have maybe three very …
Lord Cavan on St. Patrick’s Day
In the above video, you can briefly see undated video footage (probably 1940, when St. Patrick’s Day fell on Palm Sunday) of Lord Cavan, or Rudolph Lambart, handing out shamrocks to the Irish Guards (British military) in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Cavan held various positions in the British Army and at one point had …
Truxtun, Marie, and the Chinese
I get a lot of visitors to this website from Shanghai, China. I’m sure it has nothing to do with hacking, but rather because Truxtun Beale was fascinated by China. Sure, he lobbied for continuing the Chinese Exclusion Act, but he visited China as a young man and appreciated their culture. From Census records we …
Marie Beale would have loved Trump’s Executive Order on architecture
On December 21, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. In it, he wrote about the importance of architecture and complained about the modern Brutalist design of so many federal buildings. He called for more architecture with classical designs, which he defined as: the architectural tradition derived from the …
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Christmas at Decatur House
General Edward Fitzgerald Beale bought Decatur House, an historic home in Washington, D.C. near the White House, just after the Civil War. He and his family entertained people there for years, just as his daughter-in-law Marie would for many years after. A favorite time of year was Christmas. Gerald Eugene Thompson in his dissertation titled …