Every story has a place it keeps coming back to.

For this one, it’s a small island in the Potomac River.

Over the past four installments, we’ve crossed an ocean, stepped onto an unfamiliar shore, watched a fragile dream take root, and followed it through persecution, failure, and into the founding of a nation.

Now, in the final chapter of Before the Nation Drew Its First Breath, we return to St. Clement’s Island.

Not simply to remember what happened there on March 25, 1634…

But to discover why it still matters.

And why, after all these years, I keep returning too.

ENTER PART V: RETURNING TO THE ISLAND

This concludes Before the Nation Drew Its First Breath.

Thank you for making the crossing with me.

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Words & Pictures by Jeffrey Bruno

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