New Chapter to add, dated May 2026 : A Personal Elegy link

Epub Published October 22, 2025 link

See exhibit of maps, further below.

Paperback A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm): A quick narrative of Colonial Virginia, and the topics that shaped America. It is intended for reflection and raise consideration for shaping democracies in new terrain. As the Frontier opens again, the same spirit of Adventure may display as by early Virginians who imported laws and adapted to new terrain. The practitioner who may venture abroad and remain earth-bound can benefit from a recall of 15 decades that led to a functioning democracy. The book is meant to travel with an accessible format in any climate. For more details, also check the link to "Author's Website" at Lulu's https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/distinctcalendars

The author is a resident of Virginia and influenced by George Washington, "a sensible, intelligent young man who was familiar with the wilderness," to uncover the civilizing influences that made the Commonwealth while mindful of the failed attempts by Colonial Governors to diversify the economy.

From "A Tribute:" Englishmen first landed on the North-American Continent in Virginia under the attractive Elizabeth I who beguiles men still, chartered under the Scotsman James I, taken royal possession under his far-seeing Son Charles I early in his reign and centralized by Charles II's reckoning for revenue and prerogatives and coherence. The ships were captained or peopled by military men on leave, of some five years in noted examples, and as familiar with Dutch landscape as they were to discover in Tidewater Virginia. A lone voice during the early years envisioned an Assembly for the new settlement but who did not live to see it to fruition—distinguished as the first in North America-- in the scope of a partisan brawl that mirrored the impeding civil war in England. To read that tumult without the story unfolding since in Virginia would not represent the ongoing narrative. Parliament men, also officers in venture firms, that wanted to compete against Spain for territories abroad would contrast sharply with a Stuart strategy that shipped gold via London for the same country while it battled France for advantage, remembering the loss of Normandy. All of which rendered difficult to comprehend early on how a capable Parliament as would be an Assembly in Virginia prove so vital in sustaining a nascent global power, based on sea lanes; the Sovereign, we came to learn, maintains the collective well-being of Britain by the religious function, implied by Shakespeare who is so horrified by civil wars and invasions, and helps us preamble how the Head of the Church of England came to disabled them--by its independence, given the record since.

Explaining "inspired by" in the dedication to write this pamphlet:

As I see it,

Catherine Middleton was adopted into the House of Windsor

By the studious Queen Elizabeth II,
by deliberation that lasted ten years

(As I read the news contrary to most);

Befriended by the wisdom of King Charles III,

And intimately conversed and wedded
With the Tall Figure of William.

The Two, Bride and Groom, grow by leaps

Motivated by a sense of duty foretold and instilled in all working royals,

On display on the Royal.uk blog.

An American from Virginia

New to the Commonwealth will sense the Histories upon his own manners

And will describe his means of defining the flourishing Character

That the British-American education brings.
The U.S. Presidential history by its relation to Britain was a constant presence during this writing and culminates in this writing in the examples that prepared America for World War I.

Antony  Frame
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By Antony Frame

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Published 10/22/2025
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Published 10/12/2024

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