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April 14, 2003 -
December 6, 2003
"C.C. CAMP IS A SWELL PLACE FOR A BOY TO LEARN."
Recording Our History: Writers and Artists
Art for the People
For Teachers
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Virginia Writers' Project-Virginia Guide
A team of researchers, writers, and fact checkers spent three years
digging in the collections of the Virginia State Library (now the
Library of Virginia) and traveling to courthouses across the
commonwealth gathering material for
Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion. VWP director Eudora Ramsay Richardson shepherded the book
through production, sending chapters to a review board that included
State Librarian Wilmer Lee Hall, William and Mary College Librarian
Earl Gregg Swem, and former State Archivist Hamilton J. Eckenrode.
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Spinach field near Smithfield from
Virginia: A Guide
to the Old Dominion,
photograph by W. Lincoln Highton
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"Waiting for Trade, Urbanna" from
Virginia: A Guide
to the Old Dominion,
photograph by W. Lincoln Highton
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"Compressing the story of Virginia within the covers of one volume was a
painful task," Richardson confessed in the book's preface, "particularly for
the state supervisor, whose duty it became to delete more words than she
allowed to remain." What remained were nearly 700 pages of text, including
fifteen interpretive essays, fifteen chapters on the commonwealth's largest
cities, twenty-four detailed tours of the state's major regions and points
of interest, and more than one hundred photographs and maps. "It is
sufficient to say," one WPA worker observed, that the hefty volume included
"everything from George Washington's birthplace to the nearest first aid
station for snake bite."
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