Appomattox, The Battle, The Village, The Surrender

There are many momento's, older photo's and signs filled with wonderful informtion about Appomattox.  A very historic time for our country.  A long battle,  Robert E. Lee's surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th, 1865 at The McLean House.

This post may be a bit photo heavy, but I hope you'll enjoy the photo's.

Please click on the pictures to read the details.

These printing presses printed parole passes for all the Confederates to allow them safe passage home.  These passes also entitled them to free passage on any Federally owned Railroad or steamship to help them return home quicker and safer.  Additionally it allowed them to draw rations from The Federal Government they had broken from and fought.  Grant was extremely  leniant with the enemy.  The passes were printed and hung on the line to dry and distributed.

There were 700 total casualities for both sides.  There were 27,805 paroled Confederates the day Lee surrendered; but while this surrender took place on April 9th, 1865; it was NOT the end of the fighting.  Surrenders continued into the month of May from other Confederates.

Mother Daughter Travels and Yarn

Darling Daughter and I almost always start our week together with a massage (and no pictures for sure), and a mani-pedi.  In the previous post you can see the fun we had with trying new recipes and our really lovely Airbnb.

In between tasting bourbons, we sought out a favorite thing for both of us...a yarn shop.

Look how cute the shop is.  Was in a small little house in a residential neighborhood, painted  pink and green.

ReBelle (click for their webpageJ)

Located at 225 Rosemont Garden, Lexington, KY  40503  859-389-9750.  They are closed on Mondays.  Tuesday - Friday  open 11 am to 5 pm, Sat 10-4, and Sunday 12-4.  They are the ONLY yarn shop around the area.  It's about an hour from our Airbnb in Danville, Kentucky to the yarn shop; and well worth the drive.  

437 yards of wonderful Heritage Silk (the pink/rose), and 435 yards of hand dyed self striping variegated yarn jumped into my hand and a lovely handmade wooden shawl pin.

And 420 yards of Craft The Park (Grand Portage National Monument colorway).  The cards flip side is like a bingo game where you can fill in your park yarn purchases.  I haven't been to Grand Portage, choose it for colors.

As well as things you've done while on vacation connected to being outside and or knitting.  These were my purchases, didn't get pictures of Darling Daughters purchases; but they were far greater than mine.  To be fair,  my stash is much larger than hers so she was stocking up a bit.  We love buying yarn while we travel as souvenirs.  AND, each of us have lost our favorite yarn shops at home.

Yes we were in Bourbon Trail Country; but there are other things to do as well; besides you can't drink Bourbon all day long.   Next post will be about Bourbon and one of the distilleries we toured, stay tuned.

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