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On a Piedmont Airlines flight, B&W executives surveyed Lynchburg from the sky. Note the Williams Viaduct leading into the city. SEE STORY PAGE 20
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4 A Day in the Life of the City: Stonewall Jackson’s Return to Lexington Through Lynchburg by Robert Wimer. The author, a former reporter and longtime editor with Lynchburg’s News & Daily Advance, delivers “breaking news,” as well as coverage of a city contending with sickness, scarcity, drunkenness, and rebellion.
16 Lynchburg Man Recalls Early Packet-Boat Days
by Martha Rivers Adams.
20 Why the Babcock & Wilcox Company Chose Lynchburg: Saga
of the Search for a Nuclear Power Research, Engineering, and Manufacturing Site by John W. Landis. A B&W search team, inundated with proposals, was forced to narrow the competition to cities east of the Mississippi. Find out how Lynchburg ultimately paved its way to the top.
31 Mount Athos—Pioneer Plantation and Its Pioneer Families
by T. Gibson Hobbs, Jr. “Standing atop a prominent ridge in Campbell County” in 1974, Hobbs takes readers on a tour of two worlds: the Mount Athos of pioneer family farms and the Mount Athos of pioneering manufacturing facilities.
35 Excerpt from War Years with Jeb Stuart by Lt. Colonel W. W. Blackford. This heartfelt and humorous story, “a bright spot in the life of war-worn, half- famished soldiers,” provides a memorable portrait of Judge Robertson and a glimpse of the Mount Athos plantation in its heyday.
37 John Chilembwe of Lynchburg by Ann van de Graaf. Every year the citizens of Malawi celebrate John Chilembwe Day, in honor of the outspoken preacher
and hero for independence who was trained at Lynchburg’s Virginia Seminary and College (now known as The Virginia University of Lynchburg).
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19 From the Jones Library 44 History in Brief
46 Books of Interest
FRONT COVER: Going Home
Stonewall Jackson Procession, Lynchburg, Va., May 13, 1863
From the original painting by Mort Künstler ©2007 Mort Künstler, Inc. www.mkunstler.com
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