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Palmer Hayden Comes Home: Discovering a Native Son
In 1996 on one of my many visits to the Hampton University
Museum, I had the opportunity to see the recently acquired Countee
Cullen collection. As I viewed the familiar names of African American
artists, I noticed an artist unknown to me--Palmer C. Hayden of Wide
Water, Virginia.
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Wanted: Local High School Yearbooks
There's a hole in our history—several holes, actually. Perhaps you could help fill those holes!
The Central Rappahannock Regional Library wants to add to its local yearbook collection for the region we serve: Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania and Westmoreland. If you have a yearbook gathering dust on some bookcase in the back bedroom, perhaps you would donate it to the Virginiana collection? Or, maybe you'd rather let us scan your yearbook so that while you keep it, you also may share the content with the entire community. If this is something you would like to do, please call the Headquarters library reference desk, 540-372-1144. Find out more.
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...where civil government is preserved free, there can be no religious tyranny--"
By John Frances Mercer
Stafford County native and Revolutionary patriot John Francis Mercer wrote a series of anti-Federalist papers, protesting the large role of federal government.
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New in Virginiana!
John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative
edited by Crandall Shifflett
Unlike the W.P.A. narratives collected in the 1930s, this memoir of a Virginia slave was written only seven years after the Civil War and is full of vivid memories. Contextual notes are provided by Virginia Tech history professor Crandall Shifflett, who unearthed this forgotten treasure at the Library of Congress.
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