![]() ![]() Light streams into the room from the pastoral setting in the Northern Neck of Virginia, which is bordered by the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. ![]() In the library, she can hear the gathering of men convened to work on the Westmoreland Resolves, a protest against the English Stamp Act and one of the first acts of sedition by colonists. She can hear the clicking and clacking of spinning wheels and weaving looms as slaves and servants gathered to make fabric and gossip. Marilyn Cottrell, a tour guide at the home for 31 years, can hear that history. Lee, who was born there, and of his distinguished ancestors, including the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee ![]() Unless you are listening to the spirits of history. The stately Virginia plantation home Stratford Hall is silent on a Sunday morning. ![]()
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