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(Page updated July 22, 2005)
Atlanta skyline from 35th
floor of Marriott Marquis on Peachtree.
Lewis Nolan by plaque on
Appomattox Battlefield near site where General Lee surrendered 9,000 members of
the Army of Northern Virginia April 9, 1865.
Betty Nolan near
entrance to Appomattox Court House Historical Park. Her Mustang Sally is in
background.
Betty Nolan at entrance
to Appomattox Court House Historical Park, visited by fewer than 200,000
persons a year.
Lewis Nolan by sign marking
General Grant’s pursuit path that trapped General Lee’s forces.
Lewis Nolan by tiny
cemetery at Appomattox that holds 18 graves of unknown Confederate soldiers
plus one Union soldier found later. Others who fell were buried elsewhere.
Betty Nolan by restored
village of Appomattox Court House, where the end of the Confederacy took shape
with General Lee’s surrender.
Lewis Nolan in front of
visitor center and museum of Appomattox Court House Historical Park on a day
marred by occasional rain.
Lewis Nolan by McLean
house at Appomattox Court House where surrender documents were signed that
ending the fighting between the Confederate and Union forces in Virginia,
paving the way for the conclusion of the Civil War.
Exterior of winery in
former community of Stonewall, Virginia. The village name was not connected to
the great Confederate general although it now graces several vintages of wine
made here.
Casey Nolan and his
girlfriend of two years, Caroline Cardon. She painted the artwork in that
adorns the living room wall of his new apartment in Arlington.
Betty Nolan (left) with
son Casey Nolan and his girlfriend, Caroline Cardon. They are standing on the
unfinished concrete hallway of his new apartment in the Clarendon neighborhood
of Arlington.
Casey Nolan and his
girlfriend, Caroline Cardon, in the loft area of Casey’s new apartment in
Arlington.
Lewis Nolan (left) and
son Casey Nolan with the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River to Arlington in
the background. They are standing near the Lincoln Memorial.
Lewis Nolan (left) and
son Casey Nolan by the Korean War Memorial. Expressions on the large, metal
statues of infantry soldiers present the exhaustion and struggle of armed
conflict.
Casey Nolan (left) and
his mother, Betty Nolan, near the Lincoln Memorial.
Lewis Nolan by the
Vietnam War Memorial with the Washington Monument in the background.
Light reflection of
Lewis Nolan appears on polished surface of section of Vietnam Memorial wall
that includes the name of his best friend and college fraternity brother, Peter
Lenhart Siller. Pete was killed by Vietcong machine gun fire in Quang Tri
Province in early 1968.
Lewis Nolan and Betty
Nolan by the reflecting pool on Washington’s Mall, with the Lincoln Memorial in
the background.
Fountains shoot water
into the air at the World War II Memorial with the Lincoln Memorial in the
background. The new memorial opened in 2004 – more than a half a century after
the bloodiest war in history ended.
World War II Memorial
includes 50 wreathed columns representing all the states.
Lewis Nolan by Pearl
Harbor section of World War II Memorial on Washington’s mall.
Lewis Nolan by D-Day
section of World War II Memorial on Washington’s mall.
Lewis Nolan (left) and
son Casey Nolan by the World War II Memorial with the Washington Monument in
the background.
Lewis Nolan (left) and
son Casey Nolan by bronze statue of seated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in FDR Memorial. The huge, architecturally exciting series of waterfalls, rock
sculptures, deeply engraved carvings and metal statues that make up the
memorial are on the Mall but off the main pedestrian area, resulting in little
tourism visitation.
Lewis Nolan by statues
that illustrate one of FDR’s powerful messages.
Betty Nolan by one of
several waterfalls in FDR Memorial.
Casey Nolan by a rock and
water sculpture.
Lewis Nolan by carving
of one of FDR’s often quoted remarks.
Lewis Nolan and Betty
Nolan by FDR’s principled quotation that resonates loudly in the 21st
Century.
Betty Nolan by metal
statue of FDR’s pet dog, a Scottish terrier.
Betty Nolan (left) and
Lewis Nolan by a larger-than-life sculpture of FDR.
Casey Nolan by a
waterfall at FDR Memorial.
Casey Nolan by a part of
the Potomac River with Thomas Jefferson Memorial in background.
Casey Lewis Earle Nolan
(left) and his father, Lewis Earle Nolan Jr. by grave of Lewis Earle Nolan M.D.
at Arlington National Cemetery. Dr. Nolan died in 1970 and was buried at
Arlington per his request. He was a distinguished pathologist who retired from
the U.S. Air Force Reserve after 30 years of service in the U.S. Army and USAF
Medical Corps.
Tombstone of Lewis Earle
Nolan, M.D. is located near The Netherlands Carillon.
Casey Nolan jokes around
by Frederic Church’s hallmark painting, “Niagara,” in Washington’s Corcoran
Gallery.
Betty Nolan (left) and
Lewis Nolan by ornamental ironwork fence that surrounds the White House. The
current tenant, a Republican, did not invite the two Democrats in for tea.
Betty Nolan (left) and
Casey Nolan by flowerbed outside Executive Office Building, where the Vice
President has his ceremonial office and many White House staffers work.
Lewis Nolan by
now-dilapidated cottage at Triangle, Virginia, where he and Betty lived as
newlyweds while he was stationed at the nearby Quantico Marine Corps Base.
Their landlord, a retired carpenter, had built the two-story duplex and kept it
in very good condition while the Nolans lived there in 1968-69.
A basket maker enjoys
watermelon while weaving her work in Charleston’s open-air market.
Lewis Nolan by ferryboat
that goes to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
Ferryboat on one-hour
ride to Fort Sumter.
Betty Nolan by entrance
to remains of Fort Sumter, where civil war started.
Union artillery pounded
three-story fort into rubble and ultimately surrender after two years of
bombardment. White masonry was installed later.
Betty Nolan on rebuilt
wall of Fort Sumter. Below is a Confederate Columbiad cannon, a smoothbore
artillery piece that could hurl a 300-pound projectile three miles.
BIG SHOT: Lewis Nolan by
Columbiad cannon. The Union Army’s Parrot Guns were rifled and could blast a
100-pound projectile with accurate fuse devices 4.5 miles, forever ending the
effectiveness of masonry forts.
Confederate cannons
within Fort Sumter.
Betty Nolan by gun
emplacement bunkers within fort.
Lewis Nolan by Union
Army Parrot guns that were placed within fort long after it surrendered.
Union flag that flew
over fort during opening bombardment of Civil War was lowered, preserved and
raised again four years later. The shell-damaged flag is on display in the Fort
Sumter Museum.
Entrance to the 1895 Inn
on Oglethorpe Street in the Historic District of Savannah.
Bedroom of the Sovereign
Room of the 1895 Inn. Top mattress is 12 inches thick.
Dining room where
gourmet breakfasts are served at the 1895 Inn.
Dining table is set with
one of four sets of bone china and fine crystal for multi-course breakfasts.
Betty Nolan on broad
walkway in Savannah’s Forsyth Park that leads to an often photographed fountain
more than 100 years old.
Betty Nolan by
exquisite, white marble fountain in Savannah’s Forsyth Park that first went
into operation in 1858 and has since been renovated.
Lewis Nolan relaxes on a
bench in one of 18 squares in Savannah’s historic district. The city was laid
out around the squares, which are about 75 yards across.
Betty Nolan relaxes in a
square across from the Mercer House, made famous by the movie “Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil.”
Many of Savannah’s
Historic District streets are lined with wide medians that contain dozens of
Spanish Moss-draped, Live Oak trees and hundreds of azalea bushes.
This picture is real.
Flowers on a huge crepe myrtle have pushed their way through the Spanish moss
to suggest an ancient Southern Belle decked out in too much makeup.
Now the rectory of an
adjacent Episcopal Church in Savannah’s Historic District, this magnificent
house served as General Sherman’s headquarters for three weeks during his
“March Across Georgia” campaign that broke the back of the Confederacy with the
torching of Atlanta and much of the state in 1865.
Lewis Nolan on
Savannah’s River Walk with beautiful bridge in background.
Betty Nolan on
Savannah’s River Walk with shops catering to tourists in background.
Lewis Nolan by fountain
and model of the side-wheeler Savannah, which was 100 feet long and the first
steam ship to cross the Atlantic.
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