Virginia vignettes
Subtitle: famous characters & events in Central Virginia history
By: Rick Britton
Publisher: Cedar Creek Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Virginia, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781942882022
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: History; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. From Cuckoo Tavern to Charlottesville : Jack Jouett's overnight ride; title: Dolley Madison at Montpelier : the very essence of fine Virginia hospitality; title: "A multitude of novel follies" : Edgar Allan Poe at the University of Virginia; title: "A choir of the whole" : Black Baptist churches of Charlottesville & Albemarle County; title: Benjamin Franklin Ficklin : thrill-seeker extraordinaire; title: "A most fearful calamity" : the 1895 U.Va. rotunda fire; title: A "new deal" in the sky : the CCC & the building of the Skyline Drive; title: "Best enemy-fighter in the world" : the Frank Dabney Peregoy story.