On the morning of August 5, 1864, Admiral David Farragut led a fleet of eighteen warships into Alabama’s Mobile Bay. Since the fall of New Orleans in April 1862, Mobile had become the major Confederate port in the Gulf of Mexico, responsible for bringing in blockade runners carrying supplies from Havana. The result of Mobile’s rise in importance to Confederacy was a rise in the priority of its...
Orlando Sanford airport stands east of state road 17-92 about twenty miles north of Orlando. Today the Orlando Sanford is a small commercial airport, dwarfed by Orlando International Airport only thirty miles away. While Orlando International may be bigger, it was a product of the Disney Empire, which moved in during the 1970s. Orlando Sanford Airport, however, was originally an important naval air...
The Vincennes rests majestically amidst the Antarctic silence, its sails slack beneath the windless sky, captured forever in fading brushstrokes. Icebergs tower above the deck, rising to surround the fragile ship. Every detail speaks of wondrous, consuming stillness; the ship stands resolute, set romantically against the frozen wilderness at the edge of the world. The painting is a symbolic reflection...