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Good Manners at the Capitol: Flowers, Friendship, and the Grace of a Peaceful Transition
Essays, Gracious Living, House and Place, Civic Life and Tradition, Southern Culture, Women at work, Marking the Moment Kristy McCormally Essays, Gracious Living, House and Place, Civic Life and Tradition, Southern Culture, Women at work, Marking the Moment Kristy McCormally

Good Manners at the Capitol: Flowers, Friendship, and the Grace of a Peaceful Transition

When something matters, you don’t arrive empty-handed. You prepare the house. You mind the details. You make sure the setting reflects the moment—not louder than it deserves, but worthy of it.

At the Virginia Capitol, that instinct takes the form of flowers.

For the fourth consecutive gubernatorial inauguration, the Nansemond River Garden Club had the honor of preparing the Capitol with floral arrangements. Not as ornament, but as acknowledgment. A peaceful changing of the guard deserves to be received properly.

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