We will share with you advice from some of America's best

and brightest people to help you buy the reading material you want and the skills to become a great writer.

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 Jeffrey's Bookstore

and e-magazine rack

. And how you can sell your own books and articles to the growing social media marketplace.. These are some of the great Americans we interviewed about succeeding in these  bad times.

Charles Kuralt        Jimmy Carter                   Julia Child              Robert Ludlum       James Michener      Beverly Sills                   Bill Moyers          Mickey Mantle         Jack Nicklaus            Walter Cronkite        Buckminster Fuller                  . . . and many more.

View a few samples of our programs

Free Lessons in Life

  TEN FREE TIPS ABOUT HOW TO GET GREAT RESULTS FROM

YOUR NEW DIGITAL CAMERA -

  by Tom and Michele Grimm who have become American Legends in photography

    Click here to see and learn a lot more

LITERATURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY 

VIRGINIA TRAVEL IDEAS  

NEW LIFE SKILLS

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VIRGINIA INFORMATION

Jamestown 2007    300 one-day Virginia vacations                         New Williamsburg Hospitality Suite      Festivals  Virginia Indian Heritage Trail  93 Places to find Virginia wildlife   What's New in Virginia     Civil War Monitor fights again at the Mariner's Museum

Virginia traffic reports via live cameras

 ART & LITERATURE

   Pictures  that tell a story     Ideas from America's most successful people    New books about YOU    "Poetry of Life"    Photographers Den     Digital camera course   Freedom Art Gallery   Introducing new book and brochure design program  

 GENERAL STUFF

"Almost" all about us     "55 and over"    Useful websites 

Lake Country, England. Shot Oct. 10, 2007. Modified in Adobe Lightroom 1.2

MORE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS  When you have a great picture, make a copy and save the original in a separate file. Use the copy to make your jpeg files for emails and the internet. Remember that every jpeg you make of that copy is like adding a cloud of termites that devour color and pixels. The first several copies you make may look acceptable to the eye - but the image gets weaker with every subsequent jpeg. Don't try to delete pictures when you see a message your memory card is "full." You risk harming many other images on the card. It is safe to delete pictures as you go but not at the full mark. There is always a slight vibration in the camera with most hand-held shots. Set your camera to take a burst of three pictures with your finger keeping the button depressed. Two and three shots should be sharper.     Visit Photographer's Den    How to photograph spectacular events:    Example - "Grand Illumination" at Colonial Williamsburg                         Click here to watch fireworks paint pictures

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FREE ARTICLES FOR YOUR BLOGS OR EMAILS

by author Hal Gieseking, former Consumer Editor of Travel Holiday magazine and past Travel Correspondent for CBS Morning News

Click here to download any or all of these articles:

1. The morning I met Vincent Van Gogh

2. Mastering Change in a constantly changing world

3. The "perfect Christmas Letter" using Christian good humor

4.Tips from Robert Ludlum on writing a compelling thriller

5. Jamestown 2007 Events are already making history

6. Are too many politicians campaigning in "Plato's Cave"?

7. Civil War's USS Monitor returns to "Active Duty: at Mariner's Museum in Virginia

8. 400 year old woman looking for husband (at new archeology museum)

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