Featured Quote: The Hobbit

"Their feet ruffled among the dead leaves of countless other autumns that drifted over the banks of the path from the deep red carpets of the forest."

The Hobbit (1937)
J.R.R. Tolkein

Above the canal ruins,

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

Featured Quote: Stone Ruins

"Thou are the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of time."

Julius Caeser (circa 1599) 3.1.254
William Shakespeare

Ruins of a stone house in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Featured Quote: Harpers Ferry

"The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature... worth a voyage across the Atlantic."

~Thomas Jefferson, 1783, regarding Harpers Ferry, WV