Potomac Quotes

“And seeing that it was almost morning
I too began to depart when I heard
Ever so faintly the whole of the thing:
The water and the wind roving northward
And the muffled motions of the city
Choiring in an inhuman counterpoint
So indescribably strange-yet-welcome
And full of free glory
That as I strained to hear these songs conjoint
The sun arose and I was overcome.

(From "Ode to the Potomac")”
― Michael Shindler

“Waling the lush grounds overlooking the Potomac, sipping tea, or engaged in needle work in one of Mount Vernon's wainscoted parlors, the two matrons must have made a remarkable contrast; Martha, its soft-spoken mistress, and Lucy, her warm but high-strung 'northern' guest.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married