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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Mountain Mission Outposts in Western Albemarle
Disembarking at New York City in 1888, the energetic Englishman Rev. Frederick Neve arrived on American soil with much to share and much still to learn. The Oxford-educated, 32-year-old...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Watching the C&O Trains
George H. Latham (1895–1964) was born into a family of railroaders, both his grandfather and father having been employed in various railroad positions. He reminisced for L&N Magazine (Louisville...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: If it’s August, it Must Be Peaches
“Crozet is, perhaps, the most active small town on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Virginia,” noted Richmond’s Times-Dispatch in August 1908. “The peach crop here is greater than anticipated.” To a...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Camping with the Goose Egg
“The Blue Ridge mountains are full of campers,” the Waynesboro News announced in 1928. “They camp just anywhere they can get a cool breeze. Everyone who owns land in Sugar Hollow is very attentive,...
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Schooling the Children: Sugar Hollow & White Hall
There was a time when the more rurally you lived, the more likely it was that you learned your first letters and numbers and, maybe, how to sign your name, from someone in your immediate family. For a...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Harvest Time: Reaping the Good Fruits of Hard Labor
If you were fortunate enough to grow up in a farming community, you learned that harvest times arrived at various seasons throughout the year. “When I was ten, I started thinning corn in the...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Pearl Harbor, 1941: On a More Personal Note
“Have you got a pencil handy?” asked the voice on the other end of the phone line. It was Sunday afternoon, shortly after 2 o’clock. Prior to the telephone’s ring, Steve Early, a native son of Crozet,...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Crozet Past: Enduring the Rough Patches While...
The town of Crozet came into existence in 1876 to fulfill the need for a freight siding to facilitate the receiving of building materials for the Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle. Subsequently,...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Music and Song in the Blue Ridge Mountains
From grade school rhythm bands—where all God’s children get a place to shine—to front porch steps with a world stage vibe, to the pinnacle of country cool—an elevated stage atop a farmer’s hay...
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Secrets of the Blue Ridge: The Three Notch’d Road—Adventures Ahead
Okay, grab your time machine, be it pedal, gas, hybrid or all-electric powered, and bring a friend. We’ll gather up at Ivy and head toward the Skyline Drive—just 16, 17 miles or so. This time, however,...
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