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Jan 4, 2025 | 
crozetgazette.com | Phil James
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, the rail stop provided a shipping point for the agricultural products of local farmers. A small shed was placed there as shelter for travelers who wished to flag down the local passenger trains.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
crozetgazette.com | Phil James
“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, was relaxing with the newspaper at his home in northeast Washington, D.C., enjoying the intentionally slow pace of his day off from work. Early replied, “Do I need it?”“Yes, I have a very important statement. It ought to go out verbatim.” The caller was the boss, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jimb88.sg-host.com | Phil James
When the dog days of summer slinked in with their oppressive heat and humidity in the 1800s, many of the well-to-do in the eastern United States loaded up their carriages and set out for the springs region of Virginia. From the late-1700s onward, the healthy and the infirm sought out the mineral and thermal springs in the southern Appalachian Range: one group for social relaxation and the other hoping to “take the cure” for one malady or another.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jimb88.sg-host.com | Phil James
The Richmond Dispatch editor published a letter from one identified only as “P.” in August 1853. That writer lamented the passing of a much slower era. They wrote, “Passengers leaving Richmond at 6:30 A.M., yesterday on the Central railroad cars, reached Staunton at 9:30 last night.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Phil James
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowBlackpool South Shore Motor Club’s John and Alex Stone were in the prizes again at the Salford Van Hire Neil Howard Stages Rally. The father and son team won the first in Class A awards, having finished fifth overall in their Legend Fires VW Polo GTi R5 in the Bolton-le-Moors Car Club event.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
crozetgazette.com | Phil James
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 summertime,” Rev. Carlton Andrew Luck Sr. (1932–2008) said to Mieka Brand of the Race and Place Project at UVA. “I worked up there [near White Hall] for the Clarks. Several brothers—Hugh Clark, Jack Clark, and Harry Clark—they all had adjoining farms.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
crozetgazette.com | Phil James
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 good number of folks, and for a right good while, that sufficed. Having “smarts” wasn’t only about information learned in the pages of a book. Meanwhile, by the latter 1800s, some folks in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Albemarle County began to take schooling matters into their own hands.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
ier.org.uk | Nicola Countouris |European Law |Tony Burke |Phil James
In this series of blogposts the Institute of Employment Rights explores various policy dimensions associated with the delivery of Labour’s reform agenda in the domain of workers rights.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
crozetgazette.com | Phil James
“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, looking after the interests of the campers.”By mid-19th century, long before there was any thought of a reservoir in Sugar Hollow, the vast wonders of those mountains and meadows had been discovered by “outsiders” as a place for good fishing and sweet repose.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
crozetgazette.com | Phil James
“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 novice in the earlier decades of the 1900s, it could be enticing to invest one’s meager fortune and energies in peach rootstock during a productive season around Crozet and vicinity. All one had to do was read the day-to-day headlines: “Crozet Community In Frantic Rush of Peach Harvest.
