Best little stories from Virginia
By: C. Brian Kelly. with "The women who counted" / by Ingrid Smyer.
Contributors: Smyer-Kelly, Ingrid, 1927-
Publisher: Cumberland House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Virginia -- History -- Anecdotes.; Virginia -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Other titles: Women who counted
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1526: Came, saw . . . and left; title: 1561: His name was Don Luis; title: 1570/1600: Hidden empire developing part 1: seventeenth century; title: 1606: Supplies eaten up; title: 1607: Already a formidable resumé; title: 1609: "Bowling in the streets"; title: 1623: A plea for help; title: 1624: Nailed by the ears; title: 1676: Turmoil in Jamestown; title: 1676: "Soldier, statesman, saint"; title: Jamestown highlights part 2: Eighteenth century; title: 1755: Major Washington's steadfastness; title: 1755: The gang's all here; title: 1755: An incredible wilderness trek; title: 1777: A tragic end for Cornstalk; title: 1779: That other famous Clark; title: 1781: The nadir of his fortunes; title: 1781: Bulldog seen at Yorktown; title: 1787: Start of a Hemings family saga; title: 1788: Patrick Henry smelt a rat; title: 1794: Medical marvel kept secret; title: 1796: "The man himself"; title: 1799: An avoidable death?; title: 1799/1836: Moments of national grief part 3: nineteenth century; title: 1800: Gabriel's Insurrection; title: 1801: President at last!; title: 1803: Traveling east to go west; title: 1805: Two girls on a horse; title: 1806: Murder of "Virginia Socrates"; title: 1812: High praise for a sortie; title: 1813: The nation's oldest governor's mansion; title: 1814: Parting with his books; title: 1839: The birth of an island; title: 1842: First glimpses of cadet Jackson; title: 1849: "Nevermore, quoth the raven"; title: 1853: The forgotten explorer; title: 1854: "You cannot exclude me from heaven"; title: 1855: Painful days for Norfolk; title: 1856: A Christmas Day celebration; title: 1858: A job for a thousand men and boys; title: 1859: A survivor's tale; title: 1859/70: Robert E. Lee: A collage; title: 1862: Final days for Virginia's "White House"; title: 1862: So, who captured Norfolk?; title: 1862: Daily concerns while at war; title: 1862: The world around him; title: 1863: A term as governor unrecognized; title: 1863: Ever infamous in Norfolk; title: 1864: Meeting "Bobby" Lee; title: 1865: "Awed stillness" at Appomattox; title: 1869: Waterproof carpetbags for sale; title: 1873: Confederate veterans to the fore; title: 1886: Obit for a "tent man"; title: 1890: Dinner party for "such a rebel"; title: 1899: Century of sorrows part 4: twentieth century; title: 1907: Babes in incubators; title: 1909: A challenging presidential foray; title: 1909: An unwitting catalyst for reform; title: 1912: Surviving the Titanic; title: 1912: Boomtown days for Hopewell; title: 1917: Pulled out of the fishbowl; title: 1921: The school that "Bad Sam" built; title: 1925: "Watch out, she's a-coming in!"; title: 1932: The reunion to end reunions; title: 1934: An explorer in trouble; title: 1939: Start of a national treasure; title: 1943: No "Folly" after all; title: 1944: Grim tidings for Bedford; title: 1944: Rosa Parks preempted; title: 1952: A start on a foxhole promise; title: 1958: Massive Resistance at work; title: 1967: Lessons for a South African visitor; title: 1968: Life with a new heart; title: 1969: The night the mountains fell in; title: 1972: A day on the job at Dulles; title: 1975: Pesticide in their veins; title: 1976: Gaffe by a queen; title: 1976: The new "Byrd Machine"; title: 1978: Tantamount politics no more; title: 1978: A love affair with Virginia; title: 1993: The passing of a "World Citizen" Part 5: Twenty-first century; title: 2000: Father on Lee's staff; title: 2003: A paean to little Route Five; title: The Women who counted; title: Epilogue; title: Missing people.