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A Gilded Age Paradise

 Approximately 40 minuites by car from this bloggers home is one of the outstanding homes in America. The fact that it is still privately owned by the desendents of the original builder and owner of the home is nothing short of miraculous. The home of which this blogger speaks is of course Biltmore House in Ashville North Carolina, ordered built by George Washington Vanderbilt in 1890, completed in 1895. Initially George Vanderbilt dreamed of owning a simple wooden Victorian farm house with land. This dream would eventually turn into an estate consisting of 140,000 acres centered around a 255 room French style chateau. Today, the home still stands along with 7,000 acres (Biltmore Dairy) and award winning gardens that bring people from all over the world to see.  The house itself is much more beautiful in person than any photograph can show. The house is built from a pale color stone that reflects the light for that perfect photograph. And for a house of this vastness the interior is ve
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After the American Civil War ended the argument began between historians, Noth and South, over what was the initial cause of the great conflagration. In the South many southerners to the the "lost cause" belief that it was a war of states rights and that the South was fighting an unwinnable battle against northern tyrrany. Many in the North said that the one and only cause was the issue of slavery, and that the war was fought over the issue that a few wealthy plantation owners in the South wanted the right o own human beings as property. In none of these arguments though is religion as a cause ever mentioned. In the South the Baptists, Methodists, and Episcopalians were strong supporters of slavery, using the idea that the slaves could be led to Christ while being brought out of barbarity and made into normal humans. There were other Southern religous leaders that took the idea the Civil War much more personal, as in the first issue of the Confederate by a South Carolinian th
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