Kate

  • Is a volunteer researcher at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and member of the Life Guard Society donor group

  • Is a Grand Prix-level dressage rider, has earned her gold, silver and bronze medals from the U.S. Dressage Federation, and is a retired dressage judge (For you sad non-horse people, dressage is an equestrian sport)

  • Loves ballroom dancing (get ready for a lively band at the wedding reception!)

  • Is receiving her Masters Degree in Early American History from George Mason University

  • Is an expert on George Washington’s hair (really!)

  • Used to think her French was pretty good until she blanked during Jim’s wedding proposal in Paris.

Jim

  • Pilgrimed on the Camino de Santiago in Spain last summer, peaking at 20 miles in a day

  • Ran four Marine Corps Marathons (No surprise: both hips later replaced)

  • Had an attempted mob hit taken out on him in Florence, Italy (really!)

  • Collects early American handblown glass (lonely hobby … anyone else out there?)

  • Chased down Medicare scammers for 20 years (no mob hits, yet)

  • Found friendship with nature through a shaman deep in the Amazon jungles of Peru

  • Some day Jim will eat his first Brussels sprout

  • History in the unmaking: The first James W. Quiggle (Jim is the 4th) caused a scandal while Consul in Italy during the Civil War. Ask Jim how his impulsive ancestor almost changed the entire Civil War

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