1934: The Last Rebel Yell

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From the Abbeville Institute:

In 1934, FDR was the first President to visit Roanoke County, Virginia, since George Washington had 200 years before as a young surveyor and soldier. FDR was to race through Salem (our home town) on his way to honor the new World War I veterans’ hospital nearby. The locals crowded about a right turn where his car had to slow down.

Grandmother was lucky–she was a friend of the elderly, opinionated owner of the drugstore on that corner, and was invited to the owner’s yard behind the store, a site 4 feet above the street, so our view was not barred.

He had invited two Confederate vets who…

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What’s a Road

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Native Americans once traversed their paths before the founding of the nation. A teenage George Washington traveled them as a surveyor in the mid-eighteenth century. Enslaved blacks built fieldstone walls that line some of them. And Union and Confederate armies once clashed upon them. I’m talking about the gravel roads of Loudoun County in northwest Virginia.

If you know anything about Loudoun County, you probably know it as ground zero for some of the most contentious skirmishes in America’s culture wars over sexual ideology, with spirited school board meetings that prompt arrests of…

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