Craig Shirley Corrects the Record on George Washington's Mother

Very recommendable! Great attempt to approach the biography of George Washington through the story of his mother! The author's book featured in this interview is supposedly "the first definitive biography ever written of George Washington’s mother. ". She was apparently a very impressive lady for her time. Unfortunately, the author of her biography is not giving away too much about Mary Ball Washington in this interview. :-)

"A pivotal moment in world history occurred when Mary Ball Washington forbade her eldest son from joining the British navy as a cabin boy—one-third of whom died at sea. ... She was a woman of faith. Her faith was very strong, and unlike most women in the 1700s, she was a reader.
She used to go to Meditation Rock there in Fredericksburg, it’s a big outcropping of rocks there, and read her Bible. Sometimes she would take her grandchildren there and read them the Bible. ... Then he did become a surveyor. She wanted him to become a surveyor and he became a surveyor."

Craig Shirley Corrects the Record on George Washington's Mother