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- Back in the Day in Fauquier County, Virginia – 1978 April 9, 2019
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- Separate But Equal September 11, 2017
- Thinking About Mama July 30, 2017
- Historic Schools of Fauquier County, Virginia November 24, 2015
- The Association November 21, 2015
- Hard To Find September 20, 2015
- Norfolk State College: The Untold Story July 17, 2015
- Ten Plus Two More: (Part 2) The Treasure Revealed May 22, 2015
- Ten Plus Two More: (Part 1) The Legend of the Lost Treasure of Piney Ridge May 21, 2015
- Try Your Best to Stay Alive! April 19, 2015
- A Good Place to Land April 4, 2015
- The House on Piney Ridge Road February 1, 2015
- Providence January 24, 2015
- Le Plume Est Sur La Table November 23, 2014
- Norfolk State College: The Ping Pong Man October 27, 2014
- English Leather October 5, 2014
- A Sight Unseen September 29, 2014
- The Strangers Among Us August 2, 2014
- The Down Side of Ancestry.com July 4, 2014
- Embracing Our Roots May 23, 2014
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- A Picnic to Remember April 20, 2014
- “The Miracle of the Corn” March 14, 2014
- Charles N. Davis Masonry Contractors March 9, 2014
- Just Like Hugo’s February 22, 2014
- A Friend of the Family January 31, 2014
- Norfolk State College: (A Fish Out of Water ) October 1, 2013
- The Long Way Home September 14, 2013
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- Nothing to Cheer About – The Desegregation of Fauquier High School September 2, 2013
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- The State Bank of Remington – Up Close and Personal August 7, 2013
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- Southeastern Elementary School July 25, 2013
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Tag Archives: Ethnicity
Historic Schools of Fauquier County, Virginia
Remington School #15 (aka “Piney Ridge”). Class picture, taken @1900. Photo courtesy of the Brown/ Gibson family archives Historic Rosenwald Schools of Fauquier County Name Location Image Blackwell Town School Midland Rectortown School Rectortown Routts Hill School Bealeton Crest Hill … Continue reading
Hard To Find
Factory Worker. Photo courtesy: https://commons.wikimedia.org Stagalee had been working at the gun factory in Midland, Virginia for almost a year by the time Celestia Brentwood Farnsworth was hired there in 1979. Stag ran the CNC machine, milling and boring pistol … Continue reading
Posted in Country Living, The 70s
Tagged African American, africanamerican, Based on actual events, Ethnicity, growingupcolored, Nostalgia, Reminiscing
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Try Your Best to Stay Alive!
Police traffic stop, be ready. Photo courtesy of http://www.jamesdavisdefense.com First, let me preface this tutorial by informing you that I am, by no means, an expert in survival, legal matters or in law enforcement. I’ve simply been around longer than … Continue reading
A Sight Unseen
“Hey-Lean” Jackson had to tell someone what she’d seen. She just wasn’t sure anybody would believe her. Hey-Lean Jackson knelt at the edge of the woods wondering what she should do. A car had just parked at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Country Living
Tagged Based on actual events, Ethnicity, Nostalgia, Reminiscing, Virginia
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The Down Side of Ancestry.com
Can learning about your genealogy have a downside? You might not think that researching ones ancestry would have a down side, but it always does. The down side is that you find out things that you weren’t supposed to know … Continue reading
Embracing Our Roots
For African Americans, there’s no such thing as just being black anymore, almost all descendants of slaves have some amount of European blood cursing through there veins. It’s gotten to be a habit now, I guess I’ve been diving into … Continue reading
