The American Rhodes Scholars were invited to to a luncheon at Sulgrave Manor last weekend, the family home of the ancestors of George Washington, located about an hour from Oxford. Four generation of the Washington family lived there until 1657. In was established in 1539 by Lawrence Washington.. His great-great grandson, John, moved to Virginia in 1657. John's great grandson was that one guy on Mt. Rushmore. It was rescued by the British American Peace Committee in 1914 and set up to be "a centre from which sentiments of friendship and goodwill between the American and British peoples will forever radiate."
And although that American flag flying in front made me feel like I was back in the states, the posted signs soon reminded me that I was still in England:
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