Hooker Falls stands only 12 feet high, its wide drop into a pool creates a beautiful setting and an excellent spot for splashing around on hot summer days.
Hooker Falls has been known to residents for years and was named for Edmund Hooker, who operated a mill below the falls in the late 1800s. The Falls were featured in the movie The Last of the Mohicans, where characters in canoes fall over the water.
Hooker Falls
Organilleros, or organ grinders, are captivating characters you might have seen while wandering the main historic plazas of Mexico City, especially in Mexico City’s Zócalo. They wear traditional beige uniforms and caps and play an odd instrument that makes a slightly mistuned sound.
Street Musician
There is a lot of symmetry in the stairs of the State of Virginia Capitol building in Richmond adding character and class of Palladian architecture. Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio. What is today recognized as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
