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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
A Sign of the Times
Kids enjoying some cool, refreshing watermelon. If they were poor, they wouldn’t have known unless someone told them A young lady responded to a post I recently submitted to Facebook that, as a child, she did not know she was … Continue reading
