Back Issues: 2000s
Changing of the Guard (Elcan to Elson)
Garland-Rodes School: Then and Now by Virginia Grist Smith
T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr. Remembers Garland-Rodes School
Garland-Rodes School: Now by Peter T. Marcy, Head of School
My 10 Most Unforgettable Lynchburgers by James M. Elson
Dr. John Jay Terrell: Noble Servant By Lewis Hobgood Averett
Lynchburg’s Professor Frank Trigg: From Slave to College President by Jane Baber White
Romanesque Architecture in Lynchburg by Dr. William H. Young
Jones Memorial Library: Civil War letters and diaries
Index of Lynch’s Ferry Magazine
The Art of Frank Wright
John Warwick Daniel, the Best Beloved Virginian of His Day by James M. Elson
John Marshall Warwick’s House by Peter W. Houck
The Westover Hotel: A Symbol of the Successes and Failures of West Lynchburg by Edmund Potter
A Name Reclaimed: Four Generations of Thomas Jefferson Anderson by T.J.Anderson III
The Outlaw Frank James—Hiding in the Hill City by Dougls MacLeod
Lynchburg’s New Legacy Museum of African American History by Carla Heath
…the Grandeur that was Rome: The Neoclassic Movement and Lynchburg Architecture by William H. Young
Jones Memorial Library: Lynchburg in 1916
Historic Property Update: Rivermont House
The Lynchburg That Never Was by S. Allen Chambers, Jr.
When Billy Sunday Came to the City of Churches by James M. Elson
A Lynchburg Fancy Dress Ball, 1914
Richardson’s Store by A. Kendall Sydnor with Granville Sydnor Hill
Industry, Economy, and Pride: The Life and Work of Amelia Perry Pride by Ted Delaney
The Westwood School, A Lynchburg Antebellum Academy by Robert P. Merchant
Odds ’n’ Ends: Some Final Observations on Lynchburg Architecture (Part 1) by William H. Young
Amazement Square Opens
Jones Memorial Library: Guy Dirom WWI letters
Scaisbrooke Langhorne Abbot: Lynchburg’s Surprisingly Versatile Artist by Elizabeth Forsyth Harris
Tab Show Time at the Academy in the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s by James M. Elson
Adolphus Humbles: African American Entrepreneur and Philanthropist by John Langston Mitchell
Air Devils by Ann Brent App
Odds & Ends: Some Final Observations on Lynchburg Architecture (Part II) by William H. Young
The Bawdy Ladies of Buzzard by Nancy Jamerson Weiland
“Queen of the James River and Kanawha Canal”: The Packet Boat Marshall by Douglas MacLeod
Lynchburg in the [Eighteen] Fifties by John Cabell Early (1848-1909)
Lynchburg’s Sandusky: From Charles Johnston, Its Founder, to the Present by Peter W. Houck
Dr. Robert Withers Morgan: Lynchburg’s Pioneer Dentist by Robert P. Merchant
A Short History of Lynchburg’s Railroads by Thomas G. Ledford
If the Walls at 622 Harrison Street Could Talk by W. Scott Smth
The Sad Story of Ota Benga: Citizen of Lynchburg, 1910-1916 by James M. Elson
A History of Lynchburg’s Histories by James M. Elson
E.C. Glass High School, Class of ’41 by Sydnor Thompson Jr.
Elijah Fletcher, Citizen of Lynchburg by Martha von Briesen
the “Watch Box,” Abert by Aubrery Wiley
A New Era for White Rock Cemetery: An interview with Laura Munson
Project Y: An Art Gallery for Randolph-Macon Woman’s College by Karol Lawson
Dreams, Hopes and Realities: Lynchburg College’s First Half Century by Michael W. Santos
Lynchcburg Photographs: A Virtual Collection by Nancy Blackwell Marion
Jack Lee (1861-1926): Lynchburg’s Legend of the Law by Leighton S. Houck
Civil War Heritage, South by Joan Logan Brooks
Civil War Heritage, North by James M. Elson
The Story of Lynchburg’s Aviation [1835-1963] by Lawrence H. McWane
Julia Branch, Baby Nurse: Beloved, Even after Death, by a Family She Served by Jane Baber White
Intoxicated Lynchburg Goes Dry by James M. Elson
During the Roaring Twenties Lynchburg Lost Its “Spizzerinctum” by James M. Elson
Growing Up in Riverside Park in the 1920s by T. Gibson Hobbs Jr.
Snapshots of the 20s
Lynchburg’s Post-bellum Eccleastical Architecture: Competition and Shifting Styles by Forrest L. Frazier II
Silent Conquest by Peter W. Houck
Reflections of a Diamond Era: The Woman’s Club of Lynchburg Celebrates One Hundred Years of Community Involvement by Shirley Moorman
Robert Walter Johnson, M.D. (1899–1971)
Black Focus Biographies
The Virginia Greenstone Company, Inc. by Robert P. Merchant
Stability, Growth, and Change: Lynchburg College, 1948–2003 by Michael W. Santos
A Page in Lynchburg History: the Lynchburg Newspapers and Racial Strife in the Sixties by William F. Quillian, Jr.
Standing Up, Student Protesters Surprised Sweet Briar by Mary Molyneux Abrams
Thank You, Mr. Newman: Reinterpreting the Will of Indiana Fletcher Williams by Mary Molyneux Abrams
Lynchburg, “brought to hospital in its fair youth” by James M. Elson
Fifth Street and “The Block” During the 1930s and 1940s: A selection of photographs by Nancy Blackwell Marion
Dueling Newspaper Editors by James M. Elson
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The Academy of Music on the Eve of its Centennial by James M. Elson
City Champs: the Rivermont Athletic Club Football Team, 1905-1916 by Douglas MacLeod
Three Lynchburg Crime Stories from the 1930s and 1940s by Eugene B. Wright
Morris Alexander, Caddy Master and Golf Professional at Oakwood Country Club for Fifty-four Years, 1914-1967 by Jane Baber White
Records of Virtue: Lynchburg School Girl Samplers by Kimberly Smith Ivey
Jones Memorial Library: Harry Alberti’s Photograph Album
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The Old Court House Celebrates Its Sesquicentennial by Thomas G. Ledford
“Deep in My Heart”: Delving into the Soul of Segregation at the Legacy Museum by Dianne Swann-Wright and Carolyn Wilkerson Bell
The History of the Child Care Center from the Center Circular, July 1947
Growing Up at 504 Fifth Street by Gene W. Tomlin
The Lynchburg Tobacco Trade and the Nineteenth Century Monacan Economy: Oral Traditions from the Blue Ridge at Hico—the Buzzard Rock by Jay Hansford C. Vest
Lynchburg from the Air in 1924
Follow Up: Alexander’s Ragtime Band; the Death of Harry Alberti
Carter Glass and the Federal Reserve System by James A. Huston
“Soup, Soap, and Salvation”: One Hundred Christmases, Two Million Meals: Lynchburg’s Salvation Army Celebrates Its Centennial by Shirley Moorman
The Lynchburg Public Library Celebrates Its Fortieth Birthday by Patricia K. Doyle
Homes and Houses: Changing Values in a Changing City by Travis C. McDonald
Leander Harrison: Lynchburg’s Gentleman Barber by Ted Delaney
Jones Memorial Library Lynchburg in 1903
Lynchburg in the Decade of the 1960s by Thomas G. Ledford
"No Matter How Long": The Struggle to Integrate the Public Schools in Lynchburg, 1954–1970, Chapter III by Henry Faulkner Heil
The Great Society, Vietnam, and Central Virginia by Michael W. Santos
Out of the Walls: Randolph-Macon Woman's College in the 1960s by Carolyn Wilkerson Bell
Lynchburg Dancing: Floyd Ward and Her School by Elizabeth Forsyth Harris
A City Upon A Hill: A History of the Old City Cemetery in Pictures by Ted Delaney
The Dream Fulfilled: The Bicentennial of Poplar Forest by Travis McDonald
The Mother Church of Methodism in Lynchburg by Terrell D. Moseley
Far From The Tree: The Orchards of Tobacco Row Mountain by Tom Burford
Wright: Recent Drawings by Frank B. Wright, Jr.
A Day in the Life of the City: Stonewall Jackson’s Return to Lexington Through Lynchburg by Robert Wimer
Lynchburg Man Recalls Early Packet-Boat Days by Martha Rivers Adams
Why the Babcock & Wilcox Company Chose Lynchburg: Saga of the Search for a Nuclear Power Research, Engineering, and Manufacturing Site by John W. Landis
Mount Athos —Pioneer Plantation and Its Pioneer Families by T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr.
Excerpt from War Years with Jeb Stuart by Lt. Colonel W. W. Blackford
John Chilembwe of Lynchburg by Ann van de Graaf
David Ross and the Oxford Iron Works: A Study of Industrial Slavery in the Early Nineteenth-Century South by Charles B. Dew
The History of Riverside Park by Heidi James
“Hang-Out” Places: Lynchburg, Virginia, in the 1950s by Gene W. Tomlin
’Cile Turner by Bryan S. Wright
Lynchburg’s New Deal Tragedy: The Transient Bureau Fire of 1934 by Jeffrey S. Cole
Douglas Southall Freeman: Renowned Man of Letters by James A. Huston
Abram Frederick Biggers by Miss Mary L. Percy, with an introduction and notes by Gene Tomlin
Lewis Hine in Lynchburg with an introduction by John d’Entremont
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New Glasgow: The Rise and Fall of an Antebellum Virginia Village by Joe Stinnett
Life at Tusculum During the Nineteenth Century by Christian Carr
Clifford: A Historical Driving Tour of the Old Village by Sandi Esposito
Books about New Glasgow and Amherst County by Joe Stinnett
Growing Up in Lynchburg on Wheels with Motors by Terrell Moseley
Jen Ayres: A Remembrance of Her Life and Love of Art by Douglas MacLeod
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For Our Own Good: Central Virginia’s African American Civic and Social Groups by Dianne Swann-Wright
The Oldest Photo of Lynchburg? by Nancy B. Marion
Little Champions by J. P. Vaughan, Jr.
John Lee Pratt, Anonymous Philanthropist by William F. Quillian, Jr.
Elias Schewel by Elliot Schewel
A Salute to Jimmie Ray: a Madison Heights Icon with an introduction by Charles Stinson
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Aviator Vincent “Squeek” Burnett Prelude to a Legend by David Fortuna
James Roland Kyle, Jr. by Douglas K. Harvey
Lynchburg and Its Canal Era by T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr.
Samuel Spencer and the Trains That Served the South by Rosemary Dunne
The Earl of Lynchburg: The Racing Career of Earl Lee Brooks by Ervin Brooks
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