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  • Spring 2006
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    • Lynchburg in the 60s
    • No Matter How Long: The Struggle to Integrate
    • The Great Society, Vietnam, and Central Virginia
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      • Ruby Baker Testimony
      • Louise Barr Testimony
      • Rick Barr Testimony
      • Robert Feagan Testimony
      • John George, Jr. Testimony
      • Danny & Lousie Harker Testimony
      • Frank Nichols Testimony
      • Bennie White Testimony
    • R-MWC in the 60s
    • From the Jones Library
    • History in Brief
    • Book of Interest
  • Fall 2006
  • Prints
    • Floyd Ward & Her School
    • A History of the Old City Cemetery in Pictures
    • Bicentennial of Poplar Forest
    • The Mother Church of Methodism in Lynchburg
      • Take a Tour of Churches
        • Present Centenary
        • Church Parsonage
        • Site of Rivermont Avenue Methodist Church
        • Danielstown Chapel
        • Samuel Mitchell's Home
        • The Reformed Methodist Church
        • Site of Masonic Hall
        • Site of first Third St. Methodist Meeting House
        • Site of Old Centenary
        • Franklin Hill Chapel
        • Madison Heights Methodist Episcopal Church
        • Court Street Methodist Church
        • Old City Cemetery
        • Park View Methodist Church
        • Quaker Meeting House
        • Centenary Parsonage
        • Previous Parsonage
    • Orchards of Tobacco Row Mountain
    • Recent Drawings by Frank B. Wright, Jr.
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    • From the Editor
    • From the Jones Library
    • History in Brief
    • Books of Interest
  • Spring 2007
  • Back Issues: 1980s
    • Stonewall Jackson's Return to Lexington Through Lynchburg
    • Preserving The Packet Boat
    • Early Packet Boat Days
    • Why the Babcock & Wilcox Co. Chose Lynchburg
    • Mount Athos
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    • War Years with Jeb Stuart
    • John Chilembwe
    • From the Editor
    • From the Jones Library
    • History in Brief
    • Books of Interest
  • Fall 2007
  • Back Issues: 1990s
    • John Randolph and the Field of Honor
    • Oxford Iron Works
    • The History of Riverside Park
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      • Gallery - Riverside Park Images
    • “Hang-Out” Lynchburg, Virginia in the 1950s
    • History in Brief
    • Books of Interest
    • From the Editor
  • Spring 2008
  • Back Issues: 2000s
    • 'Cile Turner
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    • Lynchburg’s New Deal Tragedy: The Transient Bureau Fire of 1934
    • Douglas Southall Freeman: Renowned Man of Letters
    • Abram Frederick Biggers
    • Lewis Hine in Lynchburg
    • From the Editor
    • History in Brief
    • Books of Interest
  • Fall 2008
  • Back Issues: 2010s
    • New Glasgow
      • Bibliography
    • Life at Tusculum During the Nineteenth Century
    • Clifford: A Historical Driving Tour of the Old Village
      • Clifford: Full Tour with Notes
    • Books about New Glasgow and Amherst County
    • Growing Up in Lynchburg on Wheels with Motors
    • Jen Ayres: A Remembrance of Her Life and Love of Art
    • From the Editor
    • History in Brief
    • Books of interest
  • Back Issues: 2020s
  • Spring 2009
    • For Our Own Good: Central Virginia’s African American Civic and Social Groups
    • The Oldest Photo of Lynchburg?
    • Little Champions
    • John Lee Pratt Anonymous Philanthropist
    • Elias Schewel
    • A Salute to Jimmie Ray: A Madison Heights Icon
    • From the Editor
    • History in Brief
  • Fall 2009
    • Aviator Vincent “Squeek” Burnett
    • James Roland Kyle, Jr.
    • Lynchburg and Its Canal Era
    • Samuel Spencer and the Trains That Served the South
    • The Earl of Lynchburg: The Racing Career of Earl Lee Brooks
    • History in Brief
    • Books of Interest
    • From the Editor
  • Spring 2010
  • Fall 2010
  • Spring 2011
    • “Culture of the Earth” The Archaeology of the Ornamental Plant Nursery and an Antebellum Slave Cabin at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
    • Central Virginia’s Southern Soldiers A Photographic Essay
    • Lynchburg Glass Corporation
    • books of interest
    • History in brief
    • From the Editor
  • Fall 2011
    • C. Warren Falwell Entrepreneur and Family Man
    • A Century of Contemporary Art
    • 4402 Boonsboro Road
    • “The Gipper” In Lynchburg
    • History in brief
    • books of interest
    • From the Editor
  • Spring 2012
    • The National D-Day Memorial and the Dilemma of American Memory
    • Robert G. Scott and the Riverside Mansion
    • Lynchburg Antiquarian Club: The First Twenty-five Years
    • The Construction of Lynchburg’s First Skyscraper
    • Storing Family Heirlooms
    • From the Editor
    • History in brief
    • Books of interest
  • Fall 2012
    • The Lynchburg Belt Line and the "West End" Depot
    • The J. M. Bell Foundry
    • "The Sweeneys are indeed a wonder!!": The banjo from Africa to Appomattox
      • Sweeney Music
    • From the Editor
    • History in Brief
  • Spring 2013
    • Buffalo Bill Comes to Lynchburg
    • Seven Facts of Local Black History Every Lynchburger Should Know
    • "Overwhelmed by Rock Avalanche": Tragedy on the C&O Railroad
    • Journey to the Land of Lynches
    • History in Brief
    • From the Editor
  • Fall 2013
    • “A Freedwoman of Virginia”: Charlotte Scott and the Scott and Rucker Families of Lynchburg
    • Millner’s Department Store: “Synonymous With the City It Serves”
    • Place, Pride, and Public Relations: The Lynchburg Foundry’s Unlikely History Magazine
    • Excerpts from “Trouble Don’t Las’ Always”: The Legacy Museum’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit
    • Editor's Letter
    • History in Brief
  • Spring 2014
    • The E. C. Glass Art Collection: A Community Treasure
    • One Image Leads to Another
    • A Forgotten Entrance to Hell: The Lynchburg Prisoner of War Camp, 1862-1865
    • Monroe, Virginia One Hundred Years on the Old Southern Railway by Thomas G. Ledford
    • Editor's Letter
    • History in brief
  • Fall 2014
    • Sketches from the Fort Delaware Prison
    • The Battle of Lynchburg: A Sesquicentennial Look Back
    • One Man’s Outrage: Samuel Miller and the Day the Yankees Came
    • When Carry Nation, “The Bar Room Smasher,” Came to Lynchburg
    • Where Carry Nation Did Not Go: Prohibition in the Blue Ridge Mountains
    • From the Editor
    • History in Brief
  • Spring 2015
    • “Air, Air, Everywhere!”: Creating a “new kind of girl” at Camp Suhling
    • “A Favorite Resort in the Heated Season”: The Changing Uses of Miller Park, 1861-1955
    • Brain Food: The Sweet Briar Farm, 1910
    • The House of Sweets: Lynchburg’s Harris-Woodson Candy Company, 1892–1956
    • Reunited: A War Souvenir Returns To Appomattox
  • Fall 2015
    • From the editor
    • Crossing Boundaries: The Pioneering Career of Dr. Peter W. Houck
    • Forgotten Faces
    • “Somehow History Does Survive” Peter Houck’s Contributions to Central Virginia’s Historical Legacy
    • William Johns
  • Spring 2016
    • From the editor
    • The Lynchburg Public Library & Friends 1966-2016: Fifty Years of Service to All Citizens
    • Robert C. Wesley, M.D. and the Racial Integration of Medical Care in Lynchburg
    • On the Precipice: Lynchburg at the Dawn of the Great Depression
  • Fall 2016
    • Lynchburg’s Lost Opportunity
    • Merrily We’re Marching Onward: Growing up at the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum
    • Fulfilling the Dream
  • Spring 2017
    • From Lynchburg to Liberia
    • Lynchburg’s Notorious Historian
    • Memories, Fond and Painful, of Black Bottom
    • “I’ll Get Myself Killed Trying to Make These Men Fight”
  • Fall 2017
    • Pen Clark’s Architectural Career Between the Wars by S. Allen Chambers Jr.
    • Memories Behind the Marker: A Tribute to Helen Pesci Wood
    • The Escape Artist
  • Spring 2018
    • Training America’s Youth in “Woodlore, Watersports, and the Mysteries of the Great Outdoors”: Lynchburg-Area Boy Scout Camps in the Twentieth Century
    • Through the Lens of James Thomas Smith: An Archive of Lynchburg’s Black History
    • The Day I Met MLK
    • The 1917 Lynchburg “Shoemakers”
  • Fall 2018
    • Stanhope Spencer Johnson’s Lynchburg Architectural Legacy
    • Should They Stay, or Should They Go?
    • The Riverside Town of Bethel on Salt Creek
    • The Temptations Are Coming!
  • Spring 2019
    • Col. Aug. Forsberg, City Engineer
    • Black Herman and the Entrepreneurial Rucker Family of Main Street, Amherst
    • When Hollywood Came to Lynchburg: Two Important Events in the Life of the Paramount Theatre
    • The Park Avenue Dance Studio
  • Fall 2019
    • My Illegal Bootleg Radio Station: The WKKD Story
    • Corduroy Roads in the James River: What Are We Looking At?
    • Horse Ford to Glass Memorial: The Lynches Establish and Hold a Crossing on the Fluvanna River
    • Renderings in the Lynchburg Architectural Archive
  • Spring 2020
    • XIX: The Untold Story of Women’s Suffrage in Lynchburg, Virginia
    • A Tribute to Rosalie Slaughter Morton (1872–1968)
    • A Modern Stone Age Man in Virginia: Errett Callahan 1937– 2019
    • Ivanhoe of Campbell County
    • Merci, Pauline
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