Don't Go to Danville on a Monday

Revolutionary War

We started the day at Guilford Courthouse where the Patriots outwitted the Brits. Hip Hip Hooray! We watched the movie and saw all the monuments in the park. I was especially interested in the very elaborate monument to our guy, Nathaniel Greene, who was born in Rhode Island. After the Revolutionary War he retired in Savannah where he died very young of heat stroke.

"Greene is as dangerous as Washington. I never feel secure when encamped in his neighborhood. He is vigilant, enterprising, and full of resources."
British General Charles Cornwallis

"It is with a pleasure which friendship only is susceptible of, I congratulate you on the glorious end you have put to hostilities in the Southern States; the honor and advantage of it, I hope, and trust, you will live long to enjoy."
Letter to Major General Nathanael Greene from George Washington

Civil War Site
Located at 721 Lee Street in Danville, Virginia is the Danville National Cemetery. Among the burials are Union soldiers who died at the infamous Confederate Danville Prison. We came here to find the grave of a very distant relative. He was there. I took photographs to send to one of his relatives in New Hampshire.
The caretaker gave us directions to his favorite BBQ restaurant. What a pleasant surprise. For very little money we had some of the best bbq of the trip at Checkered Pig. My ribs were fantastic. Bruce's pulled pork was good too. Don't ever go to Danville on Monday because Checkered Pig is closed!

Succulent Ribs at Checkered Pig

Per usual we are enjoying the beauty of rural south. Virginia is lovely with rolling fields, such as the one below with the sorghum crop.

Along Route 903 Hendricks Hill Road in Ebony, Virginia

We definitely felt a chill in the air by the time we arrived at the Quality Inn in Emporia.