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My Palace in Culpeper
Culpeper
|Charlottesville
He signed his letters from a cell infested with mice and spiders, a place where men had tried to blow him up with gunpowder, suffocate him with burning brimstone, and poison him outright — and he called it, without a trace of self-pity,
Time & Location
Culpeper
Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA, USA
About the event
"My Palace in Culpepper." Before this evening is over, you'll know exactly who wrote those words, exactly what he survived to write them, and exactly why a man being tortured for his faith could still find something to joke about.
That's where this story starts. It's not where it ends.
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