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Author: Luther Foster Addington Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9780932807304 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Presents the history and lore of Wise County. This volume begins with early exploration by Captain Christopher Gist and Dr Thomas Walker, and concludes with a chapter titled Newspapers and Radio Stations. It includes topics that range from Indians and early settlers to teachers, schools, rail roads, jails and more.
Author: Luther Foster Addington Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9780932807304 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Presents the history and lore of Wise County. This volume begins with early exploration by Captain Christopher Gist and Dr Thomas Walker, and concludes with a chapter titled Newspapers and Radio Stations. It includes topics that range from Indians and early settlers to teachers, schools, rail roads, jails and more.
Author: Charles A. Johnson Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9780932807298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 462
Book Description
This history is enriched with personal recollections and reminiscences. Its pages are filled with the names of those individuals who settled, or helped in some way to establish the County, as well as those who are remembered for various other reasons. The fifty-four illustrations include Wise County’s commonwealth attorneys, from the first (1856) to the twenty-first (1935).
Author: Charles L. Perdue Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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Twenty-eight magic tales (of the same genre as "Jack and the Beanstalk") collected in southwestern Virginia by Virginia WPA Writers' Project workers during the late 1930s. Perdue, a University of Virginia folklorist who has co-edited Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, gives a concluding and explanatory essay. The New Deal and Folk Culture Series. "The narratives are interesting in themselves and not merely for historical value". Perdue is "to be commended for ... careful documentation". -- Southern Folklore
Author: Sharon Hatfield Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252030031 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 332
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Never Seen the Moon carefully yet lucidly recreates a young woman's wild ride through the American legal system. In 1935, free-spirited young teacher Edith Maxwell and her mother were indicted for murdering Edith's conservative and domineering father, Trigg, late one July night in their Wise County, Virginia, home. Edith claimed her father had tried to whip her for staying out late. She said that she had defended herself by striking back with a high-heeled shoe, thus earning herself the sobriquet "slipper slayer." Immediately granted celebrity status by the powerful Hearst press, Maxwell was also championed as a martyr by advocates of women's causes. National news magazines and even detective magazines picked up her story, Warner Brothers created a screen version, and Eleanor Roosevelt helped secure her early release from prison. Sharon Hatfield's brilliant telling of this true-crime story transforms a dusty piece of history into a vibrant thriller. Throughout the narrative, she discusses yellow journalism, the inequities of the jury system, class and gender tensions in a developing region, and a woman's right to defend herself from family violence.
Author: Dennis Reedy Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9781570720109 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 532
Book Description
This work is a compilation of articles written by teachers during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to histories of early schools and community origins, the book contains a wealth of other information—from stories of Indians, hunting, and the Civil War, to life and customs of the pioneers in general. The names of many of Dickenson’s early residents also found their way into the book, either as early settlers in one of the communities or as teacher, student, or patron of one of the many one- and two-room schools.
Author: Luther Foster Addington
Author: Luther Foster Addington
Author: Charles A. Johnson
Author: Charles August Johnson
Author: Charles L. Perdue
Author: Sharon Hatfield
Author: Cliff D. Cates
Author: Claude Lindsay Yowell
Author: John Walter Wayland
Author: John Walter Wayland
Author: Dennis Reedy