#petersburg virginia

[kleighvintage]

We are going to need a bigger box! 📦😅

[unteriors]

Cherry Street, Petersburg, Virginia.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

State Tax 1893. To State of Virginia, Dr. Payable to C.R. Slaughter, City Treasurer, Petersburg, Va.

[aryburn-trains]

The Cavalier leaves Williamson, West Virginia on a rainy day, 1959

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[lightdancer1]

The largest massacre of Black soldiers by Confederate soldiers was in the Battle of the Crater:

The biggest massacre of Black soldiers in the war was in the Battle of the Crater. Part of the Siege of Petersburg, the war's longest campaign and the one where it really did start to foreshadow the war of 1914 (and ironically the one campaign of which the least is written about in spite of being both the longest and the most modern for a variety of reasons), it was the most ill-starred battle of the campaign. It saw a plan that could have worked bungled by Burnside, Mead, and Grant.

The plan was to do a very medieval method of breaking a siege and a very unsubtle one. Blow a hole in the line, advance around the hole, roll the line up. The plan was assigned to Black soldiers, then Mead got cold feet, talked Grant and Burnside into changing this, and the plan that unfolded was a prime example of how to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time for no gain. The troops originally assigned were drawn into the killing field in the Crater because the white troops that replaced them forced the battle there.

General William Mahone, a future pro-civil rights 'Readjustor' orchestrated accordingly the largest massacre of Black soldiers in the entire war, one done by Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and one noted at the time. Leading to the grim irony that General Mead's racism brought about the very thing he claimed he didn't want.

[penhero]

A story about Arnold pens?  Really?

Was Remmie Arnold the King of the Cheapies? Did the Arnold Pen Company make anything worth collecting? The answers may surprise you! If Remmie Arnold, founder and owner of the R. L. Arnold Pen Manufacturing Company, was to tell his own life story, it would sound a lot like his profile given in Virginia newspapers when he was running for the Democratic nomination for the 1949 Virginia governor’s race. Each telling was like a “Horatio Alger rags to riches story,” as if written by a New York agency. From a lowly beginning, Arnold started his career as a clerk at the Edison Pen Company in Petersburg, Virginia. After twenty years learning the pen manufacturing business, he rose to be the company’s general manager and president. He left Edison in 1935 at the age of 41 and founded his own namesake pen company and launched a career of making and selling low price, low cost pens by the thousands to major retail chains and advertising companies. By 1942, the Arnold Pen Company was the second largest manufacturer of pens and pencils in the world, by volume. But are there any collectible Arnolds?

Read the story about Remmie Arnold and his early pens here!

https://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Arnold/Arnold1935.htm

[whitesinhistory]

Though courts are supposed to be committed to equal justice under law, judges throughout the country have oftentimes been more committed to racial hierarchy than to the Constitution. On June 2, 1961, a Virginia judge upheld racial segregation in courtrooms, dismissing a lawsuit filed by three Black men who challenged the practice, describing as “totally without merit” their allegation that segregating courtrooms was degrading.

After being forced to sit separately from white community members in the municipal court in Petersburg, Virginia, George Wells, the Rev. R. G. Williams, and the Rev. Dr. Milton H. Reid sought an injunction to prevent Judge Herbert H. Gilliam, the chief judge of Petersburg’s municipal court, from continuing to subject Black community members to segregated seating. The lawsuit asserted that there was “no moral or legal justification for courtroom segregation,” calling the practice “degrading and shameful.”

Federal Judge Oren R. Lewis dismissed the lawsuit on June 2, 1961, describing the allegations of mistreatment as meritless since an equal number of seats were provided to each of the segregated sections for Black and white community members. He added that segregated seating in courtrooms was a “long established practice,” and that Judge Gilliam had kept Black and white people separate to “preserve order and decorum in his courtroom.”

The U.S. Supreme Court played a powerful role in protecting discriminatory Jim Crow laws for decades and shielding the South from challenges to its racial caste system. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court’s most well-known decision upholding segregation, the Court rejected Mr. Plessy’s argument that forced racial separation branded Black people as inferior and countered, “If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.”

Read EJI’s report, Segregation in America, to learn more about the white community's campaign of massive resistance to integration that kept schools, courtrooms, and other public spaces segregated for decades.

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[kleighvintage]

An estate sale adventure in the city of Petersburg, Virginia with a quick 15 minute scenic drive from my home through Old Towne that was built in the 1800s.

This was the first frosty grass and toe tingling cold Fall morning we had here. The line quickly grew long with people who were anxiously waiting to enter the house and chit chatting about what items they were hoping to snag.

Welcome to the historic neighborhood of Walnut Hill where this home sits on a sunny corner lot of Brandon Ave.

In years past it overlooked a peaceful body of water, some say it may have been a reservoir. Over time it dried up and the area around it became overgrown with trees. It was considered to be a lake front property in its heyday.

This weathered and neglected house was packed from the basement, the main floor, upstairs bedrooms and to the converted attic space. There were two sun porches and one had a fireplace!

No one was allowed into the basement, they claimed it was toxic and full of junk. Most resellers, the flipper or a collector could argue that point of view easily.

"Someone else's trash is someone one else's treasure!"

The rest of the home was a tight squeeze to fit through a sea of glassware, endless amounts of kitchen cookware, linens and furniture galore. The owner's passion was collecting artwork from various eras.

Her clothing collection was the definition of dopamine dressing. Colorful wool knit cardigans, southwestern tapestry jackets and extensive stacks of base layer shirts. Lots of cocktail purses, shoes and scarfs. Beside the racks of clothing was stacks of wooden jewelry boxes.

I was longing to grab as much as my arms could carry but the overwhelming scent of mothballs held me back. If you know, you know. Removing that scent from wool is a sincere back breaking labor of love. The process can take weeks and may not totally work.

I opted for a wearable art linen shirt and three cardigans and a pair of corduroy pants that had been safely stored in plastic totes.

As I was digging through a mountain of treasures, the story of how this sale came to be started to be told.

A woman and her husband had purchased this mansion together elven years ago. The listing photos were magazine worthy, the home was such a beauty! As the couple started to move things in, sadly the husband became too ill to continue on.

The wife would thrift and buy things at auctions as a way to cope. Using the house as storage while clinging to hope that one day she would be able to move in. She never did move in and the home sat empty all those years.

One of the estate sale employees chimed in stating that it had taken them six weeks to sort, rearrange, stage and price every single item for sale.

I was making my way through the kitchen, I could overhear her say,

"There is a man who wants to go through the trash pile, okay that's fine."

A few minutes later a couple of women were clamoring on how surprised they were that this lady had never owned a store from the sheer amount of items she owned.

Yet in the middle of the chaos, you can always find things that make you giggle. For me it was the Goodwill price tags on the kitchen bowl or still attached to bottom of a photo frame. My home is the same way!

This sale was very crowded but it was so much fun to see what everyone was picking out for themselves. Here a few of my favorite finds from the sale for my own personal space; a vintage metal sun, 70s yellow melamine mixing bowl and bubble lites for the Christmas tree.

Last but not least, was this mid century chartreuse green mohair wide width scarf made in Germany. Which will be coming to the shop soon!

[unteriors]

Central Avenue, Petersburg, West Virginia.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Piano Recital by Students of Hubert Tillery, Walnut Hill School Auditorium, Tuesday Evening, June 10, 1958. George Harold Edwards Scrapbook

[aryburn-trains]

A Berkshire leading the Pocahontas by Steve Grabman Via Flickr: Nickel Plate 2-8-4 Berkshire Steam Locomotive number 759 leads the last run of Norfolk & Western’s premiere passenger train, the Pocahontas at Petersburg, Virginia on April 30, 1971.

[whencyclopedia]

Siege of Yorktown

The Siege of Yorktown (28 September to 19 October 1781) was the final major military operation of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It resulted in the surrender of British general Lord Charles Cornwallis, whose army had been trapped in Yorktown, Virginia, by George Washington's Franco-American army on land, and by Comte de Grasse's French fleet at sea.

Storming of Redoubt 10 During the Siege of Yorktown

Eugène Lami (Public Domain)

War Comes to Virginia

In the spring of 1781, as the American War of Independence approached its sixth year, the British came to Virginia. 1,500 British troops under the command of the American turncoat Benedict Arnold landed at Portsmouth in January, going on to capture and burn the city of Richmond. Arnold was joined two months later by 2,300 more men under Major General William Phillips; together, Phillips and Arnold defeated a Virginia militia force at Blandford in late April before going on to burn the tobacco warehouses at Petersburg. They remained in Petersburg as they awaited the arrival of Lord Charles Cornwallis, who was marching up from North Carolina with 1,500 men, the survivors of the costly British victory at the Battle of Guilford Court House. Cornwallis reached Petersburg on 20 May, several days after General Phillips had died of a fever. Arnold returned to New York in June, leaving Cornwallis in sole command of the combined British army, which numbered over 7,200 men.

Cornwallis was not supposed to be in Virginia. Indeed, Sir Henry Clinton, commander-in-chief of the British forces and Cornwallis' superior officer, had ordered him to merely suppress Patriot resistance in the Carolinas. A task that had, at first, appeared easy enough soon turned into a quagmire, as Patriot and Loyalist militias tore each other to bloody shreds in the South Carolinian backcountry. All the progress Cornwallis had made in pacifying the country quickly unraveled after two defeats at the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of Cowpens. Even his eventual victory at Guilford Court House left a bitter taste in his mouth, as he had lost over 25% of his army and had allowed the elusive American general Nathanael Greene to slip through his fingers. It was clear that his strategy would have to change if he wanted to win the South, no matter General Clinton's orders. His solution had been to invade Virginia. Greene and the Carolinian militias counted on supplies and reinforcements from the Old Dominion; should Virginia fall, Cornwallis calculated the rest of the South would fall with it.

Now, with the strength of Arnold's and Phillips' armies added to his own, Cornwallis put his plan into motion. He first struck toward Richmond, sending a small American army under Gilbert du Motiers, Marquis de Lafayette, running, before dispatching raiding parties into Virginia's heartland to seize supply depots and disrupt lines of communications. Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his dreaded British Legion were sent to Charlottesville, where Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia General Assembly had relocated after the burning of Richmond; warned of Tarleton's coming, Jefferson and all but seven of the legislators managed to escape into the mountains mere minutes before 'Bloody Ban' arrived to apprehend them. Finally, on 25 June, Cornwallis' main army arrived triumphantly in Williamsburg. It might have been the start to a glorious conquest – had Cornwallis not received fresh orders from General Clinton the very next day.

American War of Independence, 1775 - 1783

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

The orders were for Cornwallis to suspend military operations in Virginia. Clinton had learned that a sizable French fleet was sailing up from the West Indies, and he feared that New York City (where Clinton himself was located with 10,000 men) was its target. Cornwallis, therefore, was to go on the defensive, march to the nearest deep-water port – Clinton recommended Portsmouth or Yorktown – fortify it, and wait there for further orders. Cornwallis was deeply frustrated by these instructions, as he believed that it was in Virginia where the war would be won. Nevertheless, he did as he was told. He marched out of Williamsburg, pausing only to lay an ambush for Lafayette's pursuing army; the resulting Battle of Green Spring (6 July) bloodied Lafayette's force but did not destroy it. Cornwallis pressed on, ultimately choosing Yorktown as his destination. By 6 August, he had landed his troops there and had begun to fortify both Yorktown and Gloucester Point, just across the York River.

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Best Opening Number Tournament - Full List of Songs

Due to the formatting of my spreadsheets, most of the songs listed here do not have the name of the musical they are from next to them. However, it is my intention that there is no ambiguity as to which songs from which shows are included, and if there is, feel free to send an ask.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 30/90 A Comedy Tonight A Man Of No Importance A Rumor in St. Petersburg A Word to the Wise Alexander Hamilton And You Don’t Even Know It Another Day of Sun Anybody Have A Map? Backstage Babble Bah Humbug! Beautiful Blow Born to Lead Can't Wait Carrying the Banner Circle of Life Company Concerto in F Deep Beneath the City/Not There Yet Deliver Us Don't Stop Me Down in New Orleans Dream a Little Harder Every Story is A Love Story Everybody's Got the Right Ex-Wives Falsettoland/About Time Fancy Dress Fathoms Below Fathoms Below Finland Four Jews in a Room Bitching Frozen Heart Give Them What They Want Good Morning Baltimore Good Morning, Good Day Grease Half as Big as Life Hannibal Hannibal Happiness Heaven on their Minds Hello Here Right Now High School is Killing Me I Don't Know I Hope I Get It I Need a Life I Want to Be Impress Me In In the Heights Intermission Song Invocation and Instructions to the Audience It All Comes Back (Opening) It Sucks to Be Me It's Your Wedding Day Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats Just Another Day Just Leave Everything to Me Just Like it Was Before Leave Let There Be Light On My Feet Live in Living Color Live Like This (Opening) Madame Guillotine Madrid is My Mama Magic to Do Me and My Town Merrily We Roll Along More Than Survive Murder Ballad No One Mourns the Wicked O Virga ac Diadema Oh My God (You Guys) Oh the Things You Can Think Oh, What A Beautiful Morning One By One Opening (The Secret Garden) Opening Number (Tootsie) Overture/All That Jazz Overture/Food Glorious Food Peace on Earth Penser l’impossible Pieces of Lives Prelude Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord Prolog (Elisabeth) Prologue (Little Shop of Horrors) Prologue (Great Comet) Prologue / The Day I Got Expelled Prologue: "Into the Woods" Prologue: Once Upon a December Prologue: Ragtime Prologue/A Warning to the Audience Prologue/Invisible Prologue/The Launching Road to Hell Rock Island Santa Fe (Prologue) Science Fiction/Double Feature Seesaw Sit Down John Spies Are Forever Superhero Girl Tear Me Down The Bells of Notre Dame The Forest The Greatest Show The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals The Old Red Hills Of Home The Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home The Pajama Game/Racing With the Clock The Stars Look Down The Sweetest Sounds The Virginia Company There Will Be Sun There You Are There's a House This is Halloween Tina's Mother To Be Me Tower of Babble Tradition Tulsa 67 Untitled Opening Number Vérone Vuelie/Let the Sun Shine On Was für ein Kind We Are What We Are We Dance We Start Today We're in the Money Welcome To The Renaissance Welcome to the Rock What Are You Thirsty For? What Time is It? What’s Inside When You're an Addams Where is the Justice Wilkommen Willamania Work Song (Look Down) Worst Team Ever Your Day Your Day In Court

In addition, it is unclear which opening number(s) will be featured for the following shows:

Urinetown The Lord of the Rings Rent Ride the Cyclone

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Embracing the Vibrant Tapestry of Virginia: A Lifestyle Invitation to Norfolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and Roanoke

Virginia, a state steeped in history and natural beauty, is home to a tapestry of diverse communities that offer unique lifestyles and cultural experiences. From the coastal allure of Norfolk to the artistic flair of Roanoke, each city weaves its own distinctive narrative, beckoning locals and visitors alike to embrace the boundless wonders they hold. Join us as we embark on a journey through…