by Pepper Basham | Jun 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Named after the famed king of France, Louis IX, St. Louis is a glittering city on the Missouri River. Most notable for The Gateway Arch, it’s baseball team (Cardinals, in case you don’t know), and, in my opinion, its pizza!! Yum! St. Louis’ history included lots of...
by Pepper Basham | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
On this day, 119 years ago, George and Edith Vanderbilt married in a service in France. After their four-month long honeymoon, George brought his bride (called by many of the Appalachian natives ‘a princess’) back home to his estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains of...
by Pepper Basham | Apr 27, 2017 | Fiction Book Reviews
Our last Book Journey gave an introduction to The Biltmore as a whole, so today, we’re going to take a little tour downstairs. I’ll stop before we get to the library because that’s going to be its own post 😉 But…let’s begin…with our approach. The house sits in a most...
by bookwormmama14 | Apr 13, 2017 | Fiction Book Reviews
There are some places that just Need to be in a book! This gothic revival manor house is one that has found its way into many books as a model for its fictional counterpart. One of the authors whose book I’ve read most recently that used this beautiful estate as a...
