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Rosalie Allen Smith was a wonderful person who raised seven children-all boys-in the midst of challenging times and during the war, World War II. This book is dedicated to her memory.
A biography of educator and founder of Hollins College, Charles Lewis Cocke.
This collection documents Lee Marshall Smith's career as a reporter, film critic, newspaper editor, educator and as an award-winning novelist who has published 13 books. Also documented are Smith's numerous awards and honors including two O. Henry Awards, the John Dos Passos Award, the Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize, and the North Carolina Award for Fiction in 1984. Among her published novels are Black Mountain Breakdown (1981), Oral History (1983), Fair and Tender Ladies (1988), The Devil's Dream (1992), and Saving Grace (1995). The Subject Files contain biographical information, including a vita, documentation from her time as Writer-In-Residence at Hollins College, correspondence with h...
This is the sixth volume of Dr. Justin GlennÕs comprehensive history that traces the ÒPresidential lineÓ of the Washingtons. Volume One began with the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume Two highlighted notable family members in the next eight generations of John and Anne WashingtonÕs descendants. Volume Three traced the ancestry of the early Virginia members of this ÒPresidential BranchÓ back in time to the aristocracy and nobility of England and continental Europe. Volume Four re...