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b&w collage nurse, cap, knife
September 6, 2019 Nurses / Oral histories / Virginia

“I’d always been a tomboy and I’d always carried a knife”

I’d always been a tomboy and I’d always carried a knife, well sometimes. But, I had a scout knife. So, that’s where I got the nickname “Tom.”

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August 12, 2019 Expatriates / Parks / Virginia

Why not Skyland?

Massanutten Lodge was built at Skyland Resort in 1911 by Addie Nairn Hunter, both of which are now part of Shenandoah National Park.

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Albemarle County VA Court House, 1912
July 26, 2019 Trade Days / Virginia

All kinds of tricking in those times, you know it

All that produce was traded right there. Once a month on the first Monday of the month they had what they called a Court Day.

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The circus comes to town and elephants parade down Tazewell's Main Street, about 1930
June 28, 2019 Carnivals & circuses / Virginia

They drove the circus back over the mountain

There was a circus at Little Creek; they drove them back over the mountain to take them back and elephants and giraffes had no problem.

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Grundy VA in 1912 with 'lawless' overlaid in red
June 24, 2019 Appalachian crime / Oral histories / Vigilantes / Virginia

We had just as good as no law at all in Buchanan County

The Commonwealths had run away for dealing in Bogus Land Business, and Jim Thomas was never indicted for killing the two men.

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