24 25 35717 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/1203f87a9b4b85d00f246e9cf0d64a77.pdf 5420c095d416fedc8f1af8c6543cabd7 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clippings Files Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah County VA Description An account of the resource A collection of newspaper clippings related to Shenandoah County and the surrounding area Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Zachary Hottel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Pages from newspapers past: Harmony School Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Free Press April 25 2002 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper Clippings Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource Harmony School Description An account of the resource Picture showing pupils of Harmnoy School with names Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Earl Wolverton Jr. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/cda2b905db8b2505cbff4247b0baf26b.jpg f38a9c8baf102e4a9e83d5ab35b91b7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Herb Parker Postcard Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Herb Parker Postcard Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Language A language of the resource English Title A name given to the resource The Homestead, Edinburg VA Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing a picture of the "Homestead" located in Edinburg Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eastern Illustrating Co. Belfast ME Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 460 Edinburg Homestead Hotels Postcards Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/fba149433c8b1fa3601b7ef48159fbd9.jpg 97a1b9945b600590d60233e57bd96299 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Herb Parker Postcard Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Herb Parker Postcard Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Language A language of the resource English Title A name given to the resource Locust Grove Inn, Edinburg VA Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Description An account of the resource Postcard with a photograph of the "Locust Grove Inn" located in Edinburg Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eastern Illustrating Co. Belfast ME Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 477 Edinburg Inns Locust Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/23266fd420e7715f9b664ba33e825a61.jpg ae51d404f4644db7d9139eb4fd545e08 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8x10" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburg Community Library Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg Community Library (Va) Description An account of the resource Photograph showing two volunteers stocking shelves at the Edinburg Community Library, ca. 1980. At the time the library was located in the former Irvin Building on what is now Piccadilly Street. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ed Beazley's Studio, Gainesville Georgia. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Photographs of Sallie Coe Smith and Edinburg Community Library, 1977-2005, Series I: 1911-1989, Shenandoah County Library System Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca. 1980 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Edinburg Libraries Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/ce4528a7ac285c5f27807ce75ad44b16.jpg fd27f610355b11af81c03357d27f5989 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/ea1b5df2fa8724f637683cc1a2a5c7f2.jpg d79ed08ecb85a6cc8c7cccfa83f0ddd0 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Pamphlet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburg Area Chamber of Commerce Brochure Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Description An account of the resource Brochure published by the Edinburg Area Chamber of Commerce promoting the Town of Edinburg Virginia, its businesses, and civic organizations. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Area Chamber of Commerce Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Folder 2.21: Edinburg Photographs, Historic and Old Time Festival, ca. 1900-1995, Series I: Edinburg, Mary Ann Williamson Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca. 1961 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 23-0511-001 23-0511-002 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/d5d4637799cadfaed554a5c90cc3df1c.jpg 626ad13d86eff745a9d09d678f627f52 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/7560ad2faf4652238b2ad0429863e62d.jpg 7ae50b82df691cac1f8e8c62587208a2 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Advertisements Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shenandoah Valley Antique Show & Sale Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Antiques-Virginia-Edinburg Edinburg Chamber of Commerce (Va) Advertisements Promotional materials Description An account of the resource Advertisement card for the "Shenandoah Valley Antique Show & Sale" to be held July 10 & 11, 1989 at the Edinburg School Auditorium in Edinburg Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Chamber of Commerce Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Antique Show and Sale card, sponsored by Edinburg Chamber of Commerce (1989) Edinburg Journals, Newsletters and Brochures by Mullins, Pearl, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 10-11 1989 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18-0807-002 18-0807-003 Edinburg Schools Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/3ca742e341a9ba42582c01e7722698b3.jpg 98014517fe46bf2397fb7d58e6fbde2a Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Correspondence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburg Charge of the Evangelical and Reformed Church Letter Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Lehmann, Timothy Reformed (Reformed Church) Reformed churches-Virginia-Edinburg Easter service Description An account of the resource Letter sent from the Pastor and Consistory of the Edinburg Charge of the Evangelical and Reformed Church to congregational members concerning Easter week services and church events. The letter is dated March 17, 1949 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Charge of the Evangelical and Reformed Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Folder 22.1, Documents from Church Register Books, 1923-1956, Reformed Church Series, Mary Ann Williamson Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 17 1949 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Churches Edinburg Letters Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/acef1f265378b19a3470923130b91049.jpg 8e8da0e5d42d4259f863822d4bed2369 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Latin Club Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg High School (Va) Atkins, Rosalie Clem Description An account of the resource Photograph of the Latin Club taken from the 1945-1946 Edinburg High School Yearbook. Rosalie Clem Atkins is pictured in the back row, third from the right. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg High School Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Hi-Lights 1946, Edinburg High School Yearbook Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1946 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/0418bf6c428e8d86ef812651d391fffc.jpg a0ba56b46f24622ddbaab7443be533e9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photographic Print Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portal Staff Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Public schools - Virginia - Edinburg Students- Virginia - Edinburg Student organizations - Virginia - Edinburg Benedict, Phyllis Orndorff, Winifred Golladay, Nancy Hensley, Ruth Molineu, Margie Lutz, Alvin Bowers, Roger Brooks, Irwin Clem, Jerry Description An account of the resource Photograph showing the "Portal Staff" at Edinburg High School. The image appeared in the school's 1959 yearbook, "Hi-Lights." Portal staff were responsible for designing and producing the school's yearbook. Pictured are Phyllis Benedict, Winifred Orndorff, Nancy Golladay, Ruth Hensley, Margie Molineu, Alvin A. Lutz (Principal), Roger Bowers, Brooks Irwin, and Jerry Clem. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg High School Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Hi-Lights," 1959 Edinburg High School Yearbook, Yearbook Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1959 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 22-0111-001 Edinburg Shenandoah County Virginia Yearbooks https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/1d3fb36e7053308622c63dbb70790108.jpg c5cfffc1e97970aa3015e4a4b711e678 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/0647a5188aad5221a5ab434fb556dd50.jpg 8b0cb75ceb30ca869a44d0e340589999 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Fliers (Printed matter) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburg Lions Club Pamphlet Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg Lions Club (Va) Edinburg (Va) Clubs-Virginia-Edinburg Community service-Virginia-Edinburg Description An account of the resource Publication produced by the Edinburg Lion's Club for the 1953-1954 year. The publication includes a list of membership, their officers, objectives, and committee assignments. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Lion's Club Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Folder 2.21 Edinburg Photographs, Historic, and Old Time Festival, ca. 1900-1995, Series I: Edinburg, Mary Ann Williamson Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953-1954 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 21-0308-001 21-0308-002 Edinburg Lion Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/3bb21ce8927095b59244e55bacba0fae.jpg 4fc4c9553c6b1c3b1442df151d37e3c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Herb Parker Postcard Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photographic Postcard Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Herb Parker Postcard Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Title A name given to the resource Grand View Motel Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah County (Va) Motels-Virginia-Shenandoah County Description An account of the resource Postcard with an image of the Grand View Motel. The motel operated in the Bowmans Crossing community during the mid-20th century. Several of the cabins still stand on the west side of US Route 11. The card was produced by the Edinburg Printing Company and is undated. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Printing Co. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 482 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Bowmans Crossing Motels Postcards Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/9a0d548ba01121511128b302b85a1af8.jpg d52cccb7f5213b2ef6bf362c85e18cf7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Herb Parker Postcard Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photographic Postcard Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Herb Parker Postcard Collection Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Title A name given to the resource Grand View Motel Subject The topic of the resource Grand View Motel (Shenandoah County Va) Bowmans Crossing (Va) Motels-Virginia-Shenandoah County Edinburg (Va) Description An account of the resource 1965 postcard with a photograph of the "Grand View Motel-Edinburg, Virginia." The motel is located at what is known as Bowman's Crossing. The dates when the motel opened and closed is unknown. Today it is used as apartments. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Printing Co. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 483 Edinburg Motels Postcards Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/20a1b0d95a5e1be86827fbf429332f2f.jpg 0963ffc31979cb9fb0f2b469138e0a55 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/4f7fb85629bb6c3f3dc4df4a5f14d702.jpg 3861805da2e4aa90396d7716181162a6 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburg Theatre Program Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg (Va) Description An account of the resource Program for movies shown at the Edinburg Theatre during the week of October 18, 1937. They included New Faces of 1937, One Man Justice, You Can't Have Everything, Born to Dance, and The Outcasts of Poker Flat. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Theatre Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Edinburg Series, Mary Ann Williamson Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 18, 1937 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Edinburg Movies Shenandoah County Theater Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/4a0e36b902009b0bd2a7f302324987ea.pdf d5f835ed92c8e4acaa4b8d045e054d78 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clippings Files Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah County VA Description An account of the resource A collection of newspaper clippings related to Shenandoah County and the surrounding area Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Zachary Hottel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper clipping Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edinburg Vol. Fire Company Annual Fireman's Carnival Subject The topic of the resource Edinburg Fire Company Firemen's Carnival Description An account of the resource Advertisment for Edinburg Volunteer Firemen's Carnival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edinburg Volunteer Fire Company Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northern Virginia Daily p A8 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 1 2015 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper clipping Language A language of the resource English https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/9a02f37d0ad66b8497950500b856b843.jpg 3267c9215ac25eb516f51ff64769276e Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Periodical illustrations Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amanda Brown Subject The topic of the resource Brown, Amanda Maurertown (Va) Description An account of the resource Moving to Shenandoah County in 1950, Amanda Brown turned the fields surrounding her house east of Maurertown into a “nature paradise” filled with plants that supported birds and small animals. When she wasn’t planting Amanda supported the Shenandoah County Music Festival and various land conservation efforts. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eleanor Cooper, "Country Kitchen," Column, Shenandoah Herald and the Shenandoah Valley Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Country Kitchen," Shenandoah Valley Herald Collection, 1975, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Maurertown Shenandoah County Virginia Women https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/f2ed6d9b00e9c424acc106a3bf3c3aaa.pdf 69e5e206cd369afd305fe7afd111bf68 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clippings Files Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah County VA Description An account of the resource A collection of newspaper clippings related to Shenandoah County and the surrounding area Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Zachary Hottel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Road to Development Subject The topic of the resource Real Estate Description An account of the resource Article covering Manley Nelson's effort to develop in Fort Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Libby Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northern Virginia Daily Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 28 1998 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Language A language of the resource English AI Metadata Custom metadata fields for AI-generated content AI Description Descriptions generated by the AI Model. This image is a **black-and-white newspaper page** from the *Southern Virginia Daily*’s **Real Estate/ Home** section, dated **Saturday, November 28, 1998**. The page is titled **"The Road to Development"** and features an article about a young entrepreneur’s unconventional approach to land subdivision in Fort Valley. Below is a detailed breakdown of the page’s elements: ### **Headline & Section Context** - At the top, the newspaper’s masthead reads: *Southern Virginia Daily*, *Real Estate/Home*, *Saturday, November 28, 1998*. - A bold main headline: **"The Road to Development"** dominates the page. Below it, a subheading explains the story: > *Young entrepreneur takes unusual path in subdividing land to create low-impact community in Fort Valley.* - At the bottom right, a caption notes: **"Daily staff photos by Rick Coleman"** (likely the photographer for the accompanying images). - The page also has a footer label: **"ROAD, C7"** (possibly a section or page code). ### **Photos (Four Images)** The article includes four photographs, each capturing different stages of the development project: 1. **Top-Left Photo**: - Two people (a woman in a short dress and a man in a suit) stand on a wooden structure (possibly a bridge, deck, or construction site). - The background features trees, a house, and a rural landscape, suggesting the land is being developed. 2. **Top-Right Photo**: - A large, single-story house on a hill, surrounded by trees and open fields. - The house appears to be part of the community, set in a hilly, rural environment. 3. **Center Photo**: - A man stands on a dirt road, with fields, hills, and open land stretching into the distance. - The scene emphasizes the *rural, natural setting* of Fort Valley and the land’s topography. 4. **Bottom-Right Photo**: - A woman (likely the entrepreneur) stands in front of a small structure with a steep roof (possibly a model home or tiny house). - She holds what seems to be a clipboard or notepad, suggesting she is documenting or explaining the project. - This photo highlights the **"tiny house"** concept central to the low-impact community. ### **Article Content (Key Details)** The article is written by **Elizabeth Libby** and focuses on **Dale** (the young entrepreneur, likely the person pictured in the bottom-right photo). Key themes include: - **Low-impact development**: The project aims to minimize environmental harm while creating a community. - **Subdividing land**: Dale and his partner (likely Mary Lynn, as mentioned in the text) divide the land into smaller plots, preserving natural features like woodlands and streams. - **Sustainable practices**: The article describes how they built the house on a slope and used a “tiny house” design to reduce ecological disruption. - **Community vision**: The project, named *Fort Valley Green*, targets a model of minimal footprint living, with homes designed to blend into the landscape. The text references challenges like land ownership hurdles and the importance of preserving natural areas, highlighting the entrepreneur’s dedication to *“a community that was low-impact”*. The phrase “*The Road to Development*” is subtly tied to the project’s journey from land planning to community-building. ### **Textual Elements** - **Opening line**: The article begins with a “*M*” (likely a placeholder for the article’s first word, e.g., *“Marion”* or *“Many”*), followed by: > *“When the family built the new house on the property, they did a bit of planning. Dale is a young man with a passion for environmentalism.”* - **Footnotes/Details**: Smaller text on the page notes how the project was started with a small lot near a hilltop road, with the goal of creating homes with minimal ecological impact. - **Author/Photo Credits**: The byline *“By Elizabeth Libby”* appears prominently, while the staff photo credit (*“Daily staff photos by Rick Coleman”*) is at the bottom right. The page ends with a reference to the *“Road to Development”* headline again. ### **Overall Impression** This newspaper page captures a story of **ecological innovation** in suburban development: a young entrepreneur’s effort to build a community that respects nature. The imagery (photos of rural landscapes, tiny homes, and workers) reinforces the *low-impact* theme, while the article’s narrative highlights the challenges of sustainable land subdivision. The page is a snapshot of early 1990s environmentalism in the context of Virginia’s Fort Valley. https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/ea73c1387c1c71f54b8fd5e8e4699219.pdf 9e52b9a5dd31be1cc721ef2652cdd049 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clippings Files Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah County VA Description An account of the resource A collection of newspaper clippings related to Shenandoah County and the surrounding area Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Zachary Hottel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource The Byrd Legacy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northern Virginia Daily, p16 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper Clippings Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource Byrd Family Description An account of the resource Article covering the Byrd family and their legacy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Libby Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 16 1999 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/91439a4f75fc53293fdc51b8e64f8205.pdf 3d1cc6b6585a9f002e999d743ee2654d PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Pages from newspapers past: Anis Drug Store Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Free Press November 11 2002 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper Clippings Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource Anis Drug Store Harrisonburg Virginia Description An account of the resource Picture of Anis Drug Store and employee Chauncey Coffelt Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Ryman https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/934eae7e00834f1bd67ed33f48678a05.pdf 20a5f738775518a37114c39859de78d2 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clippings Files Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah County VA Description An account of the resource A collection of newspaper clippings related to Shenandoah County and the surrounding area Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Zachary Hottel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Mumaw of Belgrade Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Ryman https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/582205f54230b701df77b24552b76d50.pdf 015e0482cfb92e80720f26cfe0503269 PDF Text Text Emily Schmitt 4/10/17 HIST 441 Interview Transcript Emily: Okay, so could you state your name and age? Annabell: Annabell Reedy, I was a Reiman. I’m 88 years old. E: Awesome. So how long did you work at birdhaven? A: It must’ve been at least 2 years, uhm I didn’t work at the factory now I have in my notes that I worked for Mrs. Clarke. My mother is the one that worked at the factory. I would walk to and from work with her and work at the house, while she worked in the factory. It was a long long walk. E: How long was it? A: Oh guessing now it had to have been about 3 miles, which back in those days that was nothing. E: So what did you do at the Clarkes? A: I cleaned the house, washed windows, moped the floors, I moved furniture, thing like that. E: So how old were you when you worked for her? A: Between 12 and 14. E: So what did your mom do at the factory? A: You know I’m really not sure, but I think she was planing or smoothing down the wood things or the items that they had made. E: So how did your mom and you get the job at Birdhaven and at the Clarkes? A: A lot of the neighbors that my mother knew, they were friends, worked there, and they needed more workers right away. I cant remember how old my mom was, but if I was between 12 and 14 I could calculate it suppose and tell you then but she would have had to have been in her--- you’ll have to work it out with math. E: So what was like your average day? �A: Oh well I think my mom would start around 7 and 7:30 and we walk to work through the fields and stuff which is in here and I don’t know if it was 5 o’clock when they got off and I would work 3-4 days a week at Mrs. Clarkes. E: So when you weren’t working at Mrs. Clarkes what would you do? A: Stay home and work. E: What would you do? What type of work? A: Oh well I’d always milk the cow, no one could milk the cow but my mother, she wouldn’t let daddy get home from work and milk the cow so I always milked the cow morning and evening. We had chores I had an older sister and a younger sister at the time. My older sister must’ve been 2 years older and my other sister was 15 months younger than me so we were kind of in-between. We always had housework and we did garden work, we did the laundry by hand. E: Can you tell me a little more about what’s in there? (In reference to her notepad) A: Want me to read it to you? E: Sure. A: This portion of “Moved Home” is and in-between section of my life period of reminiscing and this is titled “Momma and Me”. Many days weekly, were spent at the bird haven factory area, the house as well as the factory. My momma at one time had become a worker over in the factory and Mrs. Clarke engaged me to clean the house for her. This had become a weekly routine, as I would walk to and from home these days that I went there also. At this point I was 12, between 12 and 14, other days I would walk to meet momma through many fields and wooded areas, crossing fences of long forgotten and neglected old homestead. I recall one was called the Suzy Henceburger farmstead. We began to whistle the call of the wipperwell, until we could finally see each other (that’s how we knew we were getting closer and closer to each other) and finally could see each other that’s how we would meet each other on our return walk home. My momma was a slender, not tall, about 5”4. I’ve often reflected back to these times, timing when to begin the walk, wondering how she could make that long trek through all those fields and woods after a days work out at the factory. She seemed energized by something, I never understood as a young daughter. Now after all these past years I favor a few rejects from the old Birdhaven factory, a half wooden bowl which is to be hung on the kitchen wall it could hold fruit or whatever, also a magazine cradle of which I have removed dowels making it into a doll cradle it now holds an antique baby doll filling it just right. These are precious memories of which I treasure dearly oh to have those years, weeks, even days, to reflect upon. Little do we realize these precious memories at that time, only when we too have grown children then our momma was. As a very young girl child I can still see and recall those tired, weary housewives, coming out of that door at Birdhaven leaving a good days work. Yes �worn and weary but usually smiling content to be on their way home for their families, just like my momma. They’d chat then separate each going there way, two’s even three together, home to finish that day to do what each must do to prepare for the following day. Another days work at Birdhaven factory, a good, reliable pay for those in need. Yes this truly is God’s country, our beautiful Shenandoah Valley growing much more beautiful as the years rush by faster than our own Shenandoah River, quietly but steadily flowing. E: That’s great. A: That’s just a portion of it and I got other stuff. I hopefully I want to get it entered into the Shenandoah book and put it all together as “MVD Home” like moved home. E: That’s awesome. So do you remember what the community was like? Like how the people interacted with each other like did people get along? A: Oh yes! I can remember and a store back in Basye, which you have to go by to get to Birdhaven. Everybody knew everybody and they knew your business as well as we knew their business there wasn’t a secret, you couldn’t keep a secret in a small town like that. E: So what were the grounds of Birdhaven like? Do you know? A: The grounds? E: Like were there multiple buildings? How was the factory laid out? A: There were, I don’t want to call them motels but like cabins, especially up at Basye I think they were Bryce’s, before there was a Bryce’s with huge homes and everything and they had a grocery store and a post office all in one. I think that is still the same place the Bob Folkohouser and I think it may be a son or grandson that runs the store. I haven’t been back since we’ve moved back, we’ve only been here about two years. E: Would you want to go back? A: Oh yes. We will eventually. There has just been so much, I had broken my hip and I took a while recuperating from that back in Pennsylvania. Then I was kicking off my boots here up on the hill in a cabin just like this one and I slipped on a rug and you know where they show you on your x-rays, there is a thing on there its metal there is a round ball but there is a cap on it, when I fell I knocked the cap off. That was in February, the 1st of February. Painful. It was worse than anything I have ever ever had, that why I am here now at my daughters, she seldom leaves me alone but you have to be alone sometimes. I still drive a little bit not a lot but I leave every 3 or 4 days, you have to or else you go stir crazy. �E: Yeah. So do you know why you and your mom ended up leaving Birdhaven? Why did you stop working there? A: Well I was going to school then all the time and we moved from there, down in that area, my grandma and grandpa lived down farther away from Birdhaven. He died first he went to go get the mail down a long dirt road to the main mailbox route, and lighting struck him and he was killed. Not too long after that my grandma died they had put the house up for sale and that was Frank and Susana Barb that owned that house and people from Washington bought it and built a stone house close to it. I think we moved to Basye, closer because it was just through the field, in the backwoods I’ll call it and we moved there so that’s why we moved, it was a few years after that,it wasn’t right away. E: Do you think working at Birdhaven or at the Clarkes shaped your life in anyway or your moms life? A: Oh I’m sure. You know in those days everybody had to work. We weren’t affluent people we were poor people like everyone else who lived around us, so were all in the same boat basically. I enjoyed it we worked up at Bryce’s as teenagers my sister and I, making beds and doing the room’s stuff like that cleaning up in-between. Momma was still at Birdhaven at that time or before im not sure, me memory is not the best it will come and go and sometimes its gone. So we were well known there and more in the book will tell you the happenings of the things that happened here because I to scool at Triply High School and I left there at 12th grade of course. I didn’t happen to catch a picture of it because I was long gone because I was out working where they had better jobs, waitressing, I worked at the Southern Kitchen in New Market for a couple years, worked at the restaurant in New Market another restaurant, wherever you could make money. Young teenagers boys and girls were working there was no lying around then besides the housework that we did at home. E: So do you know why Birdhaven ended up closing down? A: You know we had moved away then from the Birdhaven area and I think when new people, I’ll say the sons and daughters I can remember one son cause I could see him as he stood in the doorway, that’s the only time I could remember him there at the house and he lived there with his momma, but I cant remember the father, maybe because he was always at the factory, I’m not sure. E: So what was the Clarkes relation to Birdahven? A: They owned it! E: Oh they owned it? So what were they like? �A: She was a precious person to work for very considerate, kind. I can see her when she was standing in the kitchen you know these things fly threw a person when I’m this age when you see a person and then they’d forgotten about it. The son was tall, but I can’t remember the father, I don’t know why. Yeah they owned Birdhaven and it is nothing absolutely nothing because when we first came back from Virginia from Pennsylvania we took the tour up there, we knew one of the men who was working up there he and his fiancé. They were trying to I think rebuild it into--- they had a hoop house. Do you know what that is? E: No. A: Well I didn’t either. A hoop house is well there are a lot of farmers, their not all farmers but they are growers, they would use this plastic, long like a building its arched like this (hands up in the air creating an O) and you can grow year long. This has become prominent down here, which I didn’t know about it either. We went through the one the women; Shanda was the women’s name, she had tended it from planting the seeds she had cucumbers growing on one side and they were like this (fingers measuring out about 12 inches), other things that were growing there were peppers, and I cant recall the other green stuff, but they had a regular garden there and this was in the cool months of the year. They would take these to markets in like Harrisonburg, I remember that they had a place that they took it up there and Birdhaven, the business I’ll say would sell it, they had fruit markets up there, and they would make sandwiches I think on the place, they did a fantastic business. But they had decided not to go that route I think it was the granddaughter of Mrs. Clarke that I met once, and I don’t know if I met the husband or not, the owner that owned it then they were renovating it, they had torn down a lot of it, the had town down the old buildings of course. They had stuff; they had storage backed up in the back. Have you ever been there? E: No A: Oh I was so amazed when we saw it, we knew the young couple real well, now we got to go there and see it. E: So what was the biggest change from when you worked there till now? A: The modernization of it. And oh the entrance way is absolutely beautiful. Oh it was nothing but a dirt road when we worked there. E: So you said that you walked 3 miles to work? So im assuming you lived 3 miles from Birdhaven. Where there any people other than the Clarkes that lived there? Or was 3 miles normal? A: Oh yeah. Well this was on the dirt road coming from Basye, you’ve not been back there so its kinda hard to explain. You’re coming from Basye on Mechanum Rd and they have it posted that they have it all. Its so changed, so beautiful, the entrance �way is just marvelous. You should really take your camera back there to get some pictures of the entrance way anyway. They gave us a tour of it and showed us the old buildings and stuff like that and of course the factory has long been gone I understand. E: So do you know what they made in the factory? Like woodworks but of what kind? A: Well like I said they made small items, I don’t know if they made anything big or not. She’s got so much moved like her magazine cradle/magazine rack; I know that was one of the things. When they made mistakes on it or had a slash in it then they would put it in the back and then anyone who worked there could get it for almost nothing I think, yeah you were allowed to buy it, they almost gave it away I believe. People were poor then and I mean poor, I mean I treasure my doll cradle that was a magazine cradle. E: Do you still talk to any of the people that you met at Birdhaven? Do you know any of them still? A: Oh they’re all dead. That was 60 years ago, at least. I know the mother of one of the woman that I had met here at an auction and she was a Henceburger and I knew she worked there, but its just a faint remembrance. So many of the people that I knew at my age, they’re gone. This women that I had met, she had a stroke, she died. E: Do you remember any stories? A: That they used to tell? E: Or that you remember? Like any funny stories that really stuck out to you that you remember? A: No. It could be later because I’ve been bringing this to my mind now, so I’m not sure. There’s a lot that 88 year old its called when you have it packed so far, there’s so much up there (motions towards head), that’s what the doctor told me because I wasn’t being able to remember things, he said its not that you’ve not been able to remember its just so full up here. I have a book I have written then I’m on my second one that I couldn’t remember, he said “it’ll come back to you but it comes in flashes, and when it comes in flashes write it down so you’ll remember it later on”. Yeah. E: So what did you do after you worked in the Bryce area? A: It was called Bryce’s resort, they had across the road do you know where the bowling alley is? E: No �A: Have you ever been back there? E: No A: You haven’t been back to Birdhaven? E: No, that’s our next stop. A: Okay you should’ve gone there first. Are you originally from here? E: No I am actually from Northern Virginia, we are trying to gather as much information as we can about Birdhaven. A: My younger sister, she lives in Staunton, I’ve been talking to her since we’ve begun talking and I’ve been writing this and she came up with the name of the place that we used to walk through field, it was an old dilapidated building there it was huge farm at one time, the Suzy Hencburger place. I didn’t put it in here did I (in reference to her notes) but there were a lot of flowers that always grew in old home places always like the Easter lilies and daffodils always there you know where people lived. The fences were all broke down some of it was wire some of it was wooden. We had a path through there; you know we cut through there to go to the grocery store too, to go up to Basye. E: That’s really cool. A: Yeah. What I should have done, everything has been so busy here the past 6 months, is to make a run back there that might have brought back more memories. I had a,what was that box, it was a box it had Birdhaven on it, its in storage I know, I have no idea in what storage area it would be. It was like a cardboard box this size (with hands measures out about a foot) and when you took the lid off—do you know what a jewelry box looks like? That little layer there, it was there and it had the logo of Birdhaven on the top of it. Now they had those back there so when you go back, I’m trying to think of where they would be, because we saw them. Ask them if they have any of the small boxes, they’re in storage they are out in a building that he showed us. E: So do you remember anything specific about the house you worked in, like the Clarkes house? A: I can see it going up the steps, it was a large home, pristine, who ever kept it up before I got there if she was ill or what and she needed help, but it was beautiful, old furniture, antique furniture like I said it was pristine, neat, no scatterations like the cane hanging there stuff like that. She was a very neat person. I can’t think of what her first name was, of course we never called her that, it doesn’t make much difference. She had to have been in her, age bracket them, I’ll say in her 50’s or 60’s. E: And you said she has a son, correct? �A: I don’t remember his age at all because he was a real tall fella. I can see him standing in that doorway or when you kinda come in he’d be standing there. I don’t know what kind of car he drove it’s been so long; it’s something I wouldn’t remember anyway. I wasn’t into cars then. E: So did you do anything else or did you just clean the house? A: I used to work in her garden. I was a garden freak, I love to work in the dirt, tended to her flowers, planted them and I still do I love to do that. I pulled the weeds from the onions that’s one of the things I can remember in the garden. E: So how close was the main house to the factories like was it close to each other? A: It was walking distance, oh yeah. There was a creek I think as your going up the wooden steps, on the right there was a little tiny creek going there, yeah, then there was the Birdhaven gravel, well it was dirt then. E: So did your mom enjoy working there you think? A: Oh yeah. She’s like me she always liked to work, to keep busy, she was always busy with her hands. E: Did they work on the weekends or was it just the weekdays? A: I think it was just the weekdays. E: Okay. So like a typical workweek now? A: Yeah. E: So when you worked at the house what was your schedule like? So you got to the house and did what? A: It wasn’t set roles, she was very lenient. Good to work for. I would just say what would you like me to do next or something like that. It was always like if there are dishes wash the dishes, make the beds, clean up, pick up, neat up, bounce the pillows on the furniture all that stuff, do the bathrooms. I cant remember if they had a bathroom in that house or not, I’m trying to think, I cannot remember, I’m sure they did but I cant remember. Because back then they did have bathrooms in homes. E: So did you do anything fun on the weekends when you were younger, or did you just work the entire time? A: We used to walk up to Basye, they had a bowling alley up there, underneath because there was a restaurant and a little store, no it wasn’t a store what was that place? Well there was a little place rinky dinky but I remember the bowling alley �was you came up around the curve and drove in it. We used to walk with outher kids from other areas there were the Walker twins I know we would get like 4 or 5 or 6 of us together and walk in the evenings, that way we would have company walking back at dark. E: So besides the Walker twins who else would you go with? Just like friends? Or people that just lived near by? A: Oh yeah everybody walked mostly, especially teenagers. I know there was a young boy who lived down in a farmhouse; I remember because he used to ride the school bus, they called him Jessie James Barb, I remember him. Oh god that’s been so long ago, oh my. There was a lot of Barb’s who lived there in the area, it was Barb, Barb, Barb, Barb. We stemmed from Barb’s my mother did she was a Barb. My dad of course was a Reiman they lived over in Forestville; they had a big farm over in Forestville. E: And you lived on a farm? A: Yeah I lived there; I would go over in the summer time when I was big enough to thin corn. When the corn came to be thinned that’s where Annabelle went. You couldn’t even see the end of those fields and there was another girl about my age that lived a couple houses down, it was like 3 or 4 houses in the area next to grandpap and grandma’s farm. At that time grandpap would hire people, kids you know to thin corn. You don’t know what thinning corn is do ya? E: No can you explain it to me? A: There were fields of corn, not like in your garden; I mean literally fields of corn. When they planted it they planted it row by row by row of course and when the machine would drop it, it would drop to many kernels in it and we would go by each row and pull the suckers they’re called the suckers. Here’s your corn (motions with hand from table to as high as her hand can reach) here’s your sucker (motions hand only few inches off the table) you pull those up and threw them away so that the ear of corn could get more strength from the other two, and anything over 3 you didn’t leave it there you pulled them up, and at the end of that row you could have lemonade if you wanted to or whatever. You never thought you would get to the end of that row, but we always had fun doing that there was always 4 or 5 of us doing that, working in the fields, you know friends, kids my age. So it was something nice to do. I stayed over there during the summers sometimes. E: How long would that entire process take to do all the fields? A: Oh I can’t remember that honey that would take weeks. E: Weeks? �A: Yeah it would depend on how many people you had pulling the corn through the fields. E: How many hours a day would you do that for? A: We would work till noon. I can remember one time it was so awful hot, even though you would have the corn to shield you, and when we went in because it was across the road from granpap’s farm and I went on an laid on the swing on the porch because I got sick and I drank spearmint tea, and I drank to much of it and got sicker, and I cannot stand to smell it to this day. I do not drink tea at all, none, because of that episode. So it’s these things that come into your mind and what you did. I was probably oh I don’t remember, but I was big enough to thin corn. E: Did you do anything else; you said you milked the cow? A: Grandpap always milked their cow, I milked the cow at our house we lived at grandpa’s and grandma’s place, the other this was momma’s family. Now the thinning of the corn was my daddy’s family. E: Did you do anything else other than thin corn? A: We would work in the garden, pull weeds, picking up potatoes when they were plowed you know harvested. We always worked, we worked everyday, everyday! Sunday’s grandpa and grandma went to church and we went to Sunday school, I can recall that of course, all the time. So it was weekdays weekdays weekdays. Each summer was busy doing things and I know grandpap Barb or I mean Reiman used to plant peanuts on his farm where we planted corn and that was always a fascination to me. You know when you pull a peanut up? You don’t know what that is. E: No, explain it to me I’m very curious. A: Peanuts grows--- when you plant it you hull it, you know what a peanut is in a shell? E: Yeah. A: You take that out its called green peanut. You plant the beans inside that peanut. Plant it in a row; do you know anything about a garden at all? E: Mhm. A: You know how you would plant onions, a set, it would be onion set, onion set onion set, that’s how you would plant peanuts it would be peanut, peanut, peanut, peanut. When they grew it would be growing like spinach or kale, it was real like this (motions with hands) underneath the soil, granddad always knew when it was ripe that’s what we called it, or “ready to pull”, and you would pull them up and the �soil was nice, and then you’d shake off the dirt, and you would lay it on a place like brown bags, they didn’t have newspapers then, and for them to dry, then you would hull them, I mean take the green stuff off like the leaves and stuff. Have you seen the peanuts in the store? That has the peanuts in the hull? E: Yeah. A: Okay. That hull is a cardboard around it, it’s kind of a cardboard, yeah well you have to roast those, you have to put those in the oven and roast them. They’re delicious that way. E: You did that in the summers? A: No the fall, they were growing during the summer. E: Then you went to school? Did you go all the way through high school? A: Mhm. E: Then what did you do when you graduated high school? A: I went to grade school 1-6th, down below Birdhaven down further, do you know where Gerome is? E: I think I’ve heard of it. A: Okay. It’s a little town you close your eyes you missed it. We would ride the bus and up till 6th grade you walked to school. It was called Lindamoot school, it was 16th grade, in one school. Sits on a hill, it’s a house now I think they renovated it. After you went through that school you rode the bus to Mt. Jackson. I went to Triply High School. E: Then what did you do afterwards? A: Well to go to high school I had an aunt and uncle and they had 2 children that lived in Mt. Jackson so I could go to high school it wouldn’t cost me anything I stayed with them and worked at their house. I did housework, I ironed a lot I was perfectionist at ironing. Give me a white shirt, I love to iron. I would do their bathrooms of course so I could earn my way to school, and that’s how I got to high school. E: That’s awesome. Then after high school what did you do? Did you still live in the area? Did you move? A: I moved from town to town I think because I was dating then, and that’s when I met my ex-husband, that’s a story I don’t tell. So anyway it was a good life. �E: You said you moved back here from Pennsylvania, what made you move to Pennsylvania. A: My husband drove a tractor-trailer; they had a station in Verona that’s just before Staunton, of course we lived up there for awhile because it was close to there work, wherever they got located you had to move too. We lived down here until nineteen ninety--- I can’t remember it now, but they moved from Verona which they call it Staunton down to New Market. Do you know where the Pidthen home is in New Market? They called it the Pidthen home, it is now a—down on the left it is now a big huge place up on a hill like I think it might be a care place for older people I believe. I haven’t gotten into much of the town to know where exactly things are because I’ve been busy. When the relay station came to New Market then we moved back down. We lived in New Market we lived there we lived in Strathmore for 7 years before we were transferred to Pennsylvania. Now another station a relay station for the trucking company, its called Mason and Dickson, went up to the outskirts of Pennsylvania—Harrisburg, we lived at Strathmore then, do you know what that is? Strathmore farm is? The B and B breakfast. Do you know where Cover Bridge is? E: Yes Yes. A: Around that turn after you come out of that bridge was, what we always called it the Strathmore house. They have now made it into a B and B, but I believe they’re closed. We lived there for 7 years, while the men mostly stayed up in Verona in hotels. That’s how we got to Pennsylvania. E: Well do you have anything else you would like to say? A: I can’t think of a thing until you get down the driveway and I’ll think I should have told her that! Well leave me your phone number and your full name and I’ll call you if I think of anything else. E: Yes of course just let us know. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bird Haven Oral History Collection Subject The topic of the resource Bird Haven (Va) Shenandoah Community Workers Description An account of the resource Sometime in the early 1920s Philadelphia banker and philanthropist William Bernard Clark founded the Shenandoah Community Workers organization near what is now Basye Virginia. This group was designed to provide locals, many of which were economically disadvantaged, with good paying jobs based on their wood working traditions. Clark built a factory on property his grandmother had purchased as a personal retreat and named it Bird Haven Virginia. Initially the community workers focused on wooden toys and puzzles. Many of these featured birds, Hollywood Stars, or animals. Later the company began to produce small wooden furniture, bowls, and kitchen utensils. Bird Haven closed sometime in the early 1960s. Following this, most of the records were lost and much of the site's history was forgotten. This oral history project, conducted as part of a partnership between the Shenandoah County Library, James Madison University, and Bird Haven Farm, is designed to recover some of lost parts of the site's story. It focuses on interviews of 14 members of the Bird Haven community, including several employees and individuals who lived nearby. All interviews and transcriptions were conducted by JMU history students and are available for viewing in person at the Shenandoah County Library's Truban Archives. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shenandoah County Library James Madison University Bird Haven Farm Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Emily Schmitt Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Annabel Reedy Location The location of the interview Edinburg Virginia Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 42:48 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Annabel Reedy Oral History Subject The topic of the resource Reedy, Annabel Basye (Va) Bird Haven (Va) Description An account of the resource Oral history featuring Annabel Reedy of Edinburg Virginia recorded by Emily Schmitt of James Madison University. The interview was conducted as part of a project designed to better understand the history of Bird Haven Virginia, the Shenandoah Community Workers, and the surrounding communities. The entry includes a video interview and downloadable transcript (under files). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emily Schmitt Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Shenandoah Voices Oral History Collection <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bv-CVuize8g" frameborder="0"></iframe> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 30, 2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MOV File Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2017-006 Basye Bird Haven Oral History Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/ee41818872b07b9ba3b076b87adf4ab0.pdf a42e552bf60ad6fad3490edd18c2a1a4 PDF Text Text Richard Barb Interview Transcribed by Emmy Freedman Emmy: Please state your name. Richard: Richard Barb. E: Where are you from? R: Jerome, Virginia. Born in 1938. September 29th. You weren’t born on Bird Haven? No. We moved to Bird Haven when I was in first grade. I was seven years old. And I lived there until I joined the air force in 1958. When did it close down? You know, everyone asks me this, and nobody knows the answer. But near as I can figure it was between ’60, ’61, that time. Because I was home from Iwo Jima in 1959. And I came back from Germany in 1963. And somewhere in between it closed. I left in ’58 and I was gone for four and a half years. Did you continue school at Bird Haven? First grade, we were living in Jerome at first. I started school at Charlie Miller school down by the church. They closed it, so then I had to go to grade school in Conicville, Virginia. Then we moved up here and they switched me to Mt. Herman school, which is closed and gone now. And then from there I went to Tripley. What was your experience like living there? Bird Haven? I just lived there. See, my parents both worked at the community workers store. My daddy was a foreman, he ran the place. And my mother basically sprayed all the stuff with a new finish. They both worked there until it closed. Did your parents have those jobs before they moved there? Yes. Yes, I don’t really know what year they started but I’d say it was around ’30-something. 1935, ’36. Originally the place built wooden toys and jigsaw puzzles. Then they switched to making bowls later on, which is what they were doing back when I first was around. Did they move there out of convenience? �Yep. They wanted him there because he always made sure the fire was turned off at night and everything because fire… this, that and the other and they ask him all the time anytime anyone wanted to know anything. He basically had the heart and the farm. Were there a lot of other people there? No. In Bird Haven there was three houses. The one we lived in, the one the owner lived in and then our old homeplace down below my great great grandfather had built or built. Did you get to play with the toys that were made there? Yeah, I played with the toys, which I don’t have anymore. But, you know, it’s like anything else. Time changes. But they had the toys, they used to have the jigsaw puzzles. Now, one of the kids we had was Hubert. Now, he was there in the homeplace. But they were the only ones around there in Bird Haven. Did you have a favorite puzzle? Well, I got one hanging in the bedroom that’s never been cut out. It’s just a picture of a deer jumping through the woods. Do you have a favorite memory from Bird Haven? Well, basically the fact that you could do what you wanted to do. We used to go hunting, I could go fishing in the little stream and the little trout would come up from Stony. And just running around free through the woods. How far was school? Well, it was about six miles to Mt. Herman. But I had to walk from the house to the road to wait for the bus, which was basically a mile. Did kids from school like to come over and play here? No. When you left school, that was it. You didn’t see them until the next day. How did you learn woodworking? Practiced. (Points to table) I did quite a few things that I give away to people because when I was in Tennessee I had a woodworking shop that I built 20 by 40 and I built people stuff and gave it to people. Like my Godson, I made a cradle for him. It was the type that sat on a pedestal. All you do is pull a couple pins out and the whole thing came apart. I made it out of cherry, just like that. Made with Virginia cherry. What’s the best wood for woodworking? �Uh. Well, maple and walnut and cherry are all real hard woods. They’re a little hard to work with, but still I like the walnut. But it’s rather expensive. But can you sell it for more? Oh, yes. Did you make other things? Yeah, I made a few other things. I made kitchen cabinets and I made a bed for my son when he was living in Tennessee in Knoxville. A lot of little stuff. Do you have a favorite thing you built? Oh, the cradle I made for my godson. Made it out of cherry, too. How long did it take you to make it? Well, I was working full-time so I only did it in the evenings or whenever I got home because a lot of times I’d be gone for weekends. So it took me quite a while, about six to eight months. But I had it done before he was born. How old is he now? Oh, God, he’s probably 50. Is the cradle still around? Oh yes, they got it. So it stayed through the generations? His kids slept in it, too. E: (pointing to blankets around the house) Did someone make these blankets, too? R: My wife made them. She made that. She was doing that type of stuff all the time. Did she experience Bird Haven? Yeah, a little. But not much. Because we came back from Germany in ’63. What was the hardest part about living in Bird Haven? Fact that there just wasn’t anything there. I mean, to get your groceries and everything you either have to go out to a little community store or you have to go to Mt. Jackson. �What was your experience in the military like? I enjoyed it. I mean the basic training, that was a pain, but it really wasn’t that bad because I used to stomp up and down the hills here in Bryce all the time so I was in the condition for it. Did living on Bird haven help prepare you? Well, you definitely got your exercise in because going to school I had to walk a mile each way to get to the bus. Plus stomping through the woods all the time. I mean, working in the garden and cutting wood and this, that and the other weren’t that enjoyable, but we did it. Did you say you were in the Air Force? Yep. Where were you stationed? I started out in San Antonio for basic and then I went to Amarillo for tech school and from there I went to Iwo Jima and then from Iwo Jima I went to Germany for three years. So I got to see a little bit of country. And you met your wife in Germany? Right, she worked for Vantage Radio over in Ramstein air force station where I was stationed and I did work for them at night. That’s how I got tangled up with her. When did you get married, and where? We got married in ’62 in Ramstein, Germany, and she passed away, let’s see, right at 20 years ago. What was your favorite thing about her? She was a good hard worker. You could trust her. She didn’t go out and blow money. These other guys, their wives would drive them crazy trying to make enough money to keep them going. She wasn’t like that. If she spent over $20, we discussed it first. Even though she had a check book and knew exactly what we had. Do you have any kids? One son. He lives in Brewer, Maine. So your son grew up around here? �Yeah. He grew up in, let’s see, Bird Haven, Chesapeake, Virginia, Jacksonville, Florida, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee. We sorta moved all over like military. How did he like Bird Haven? He liked it. But he was so little he didn’t realize what was going on at the time. Right. How old was he when you moved away? When we moved away from Bird Haven he was probably six or seven. Something like that. Because he ended up going to college in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, MTSU. So once you got back from your service, what did you do here? What did I do? I worked for Bryce’s for a little while and then I went to work for Eileen, which was a clothing manufacturer in Edinburg. I was in charge of production and control and as for that I drove tractor trailers for 30 years and then I retired and that was it. That’s all the jobs I ever had. So woodworking has always been more of a hobby? Just a hobby, yeah. Do you still get to do it? Every once in a while when I get the energy. Are you working on anything right now? No. What was the last thing you made? Probably just some picture frames. Do you want to tell us about your childhood on Bird Haven? Childhood on Bird Haven? You just, well. We did a lot of hunting, go out and gather mushrooms in the summer. Go fishing. And every weekend we usually go to the river or something out in Mt. Jackson and do some more fishing. Did a lot of, y’know … I was never into sports, other than hunting. And fishing. Sports at school, no. I read library books. That was my big thing. As many books as I could get out, I’d read it. It didn’t matter what it was. What’s a really good book you read recently? �Uh, Jesus. I can’t even think now. The last one was one of Bill O’Reilly’s and I can’t even think of the name of it right now. I just jump from one type of book to the other, it doesn’t make a difference. I like a lot of stuff with World War II, Vietnam War and then just old Westerns or whatever. Like I’m reading John Grisham now. So, you know, I just jump around. Do you still like to hunt now? No. I gave that up. I couldn’t bring myself to shoot an animal anymore. What did you like about hunting when you were younger? I dunno, it was just a challenge. You would just see which could outsmart the other one. Who usually won? It did. What would you shoot at? Deer, squirrels, rabbits. Were they everywhere? Yeah. Back then they were. How big was Bird Haven? Well, land-wise, I think it was 75 to 100 acres maybe. But then before it was all over with I think it was close to 300 acres. Did your parents live on it until it closed? Yeah. And then what did they do? They went and worked for Rocko’s back in Edinburg. Poultry plant. There weren’t many jobs around? Do you have a lot of neighbors? I got one of the first to come in, Christina, who im related to. And then on the left, next house on the left is Bernadette and her husband. And then across the road is the Pope boy who lives there. Down there I got another relative, Gary and Linda baker. And then theres �another house being built one of these days on the left, then you got jimmy Delaurey and his wife and bill bean. And that’s it. That’s the whole neighborhood. E: We drove by one house where two dogs chased us down the road? R: The one on the right or the one on the left? E: Left. R: Oh, you’re talking about that first house there. I always play with that dog when I come in, especially the white one. Ill stop at the bottom of the hill and make him come down and then we race each other to the other end of the road. E: They’re very energetic. They were out-racing my car for a little while. Oh, yeah, he loves to do that. Is it nice and peaceful out here? Very quiet. Is that why you wanted to stay in the area? Yep. Despite living in Florida? Well, I lived in Jacksonville, Florida, that was nice. But it was still too many people. And I lived in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for 21 years but I was out on the out of town. When I first moved there you could leave the driveway and be in the middle of town in five minutes. Now you’re lucky if you can get out of the driveway in five minutes. What happens when it snows? Not really. If it gets too deep I just stay home. Nah, this last snow we had eight inches I was out plowing snow from probably about 8:00 until 12. Opening up people’s driveways and the road going out. Do you ever go to Harrisonburg? Yeah. I go up to the VA all the time. Out on 42. What’s your favorite thing to do there? Or are there too many people? �Harrisonburg? (laughs) Go to Costco, get groceries and come home. Yeah I usually go up there a lot of times to see a movie. If they got a good war movie I’ll go … Like “Hacksaw Ridge.” How was that? That was great. Based on a true story, of a guy who was conscientious, objective, but he wanted to serve so he became a medic. Yeah, it was very interesting. Do you have a favorite movie that depicts war really well? Probably the one on Charlie and company in World War II. What’s your favorite thing about this whole area? Well, this was Bird Haven until they incorporated everything. Bird Haven had its own post office. When they closed up, they closed the post office and somewhere it just more or less disappeared and everything was called Basye. See the old original building when you first went in, where they had the showroom upstairs, there used to be a dentist office on the right side, post office on the left side and then the back end, that’s where they got all the products ready and packed them up and boxed them and shipped them out. And the next floor up was the showroom for tourists. And the next floor they had all the labeling equipment for labeling the boxes and everything. Was your house on Bird Haven like this one? Yep. Except it was an old house. I mean it was old, old. What year do you think it was built? Probably back about the ’20s. Maybe. Or maybe earlier than that. How far was it from where we’re sitting now? From where we’re sitting now? Just straight over the hill. Maybe a half, three-quarters mile. Does it still exist? Yeah. It’s still there. And the old homeplace is still there. Do people live there? No. The only one, the Carrs built a new house where the owner’s house used to be. They tore it down and built a new one. How long have you lived here? �Here? I’ve only lived here now for about 12, 13 years. Because I built this house with my mother, and she passed away when I was living away from here. And then I decided one day that I’d move back home. So I came back up here and did a bunch of work. Put new flooring in, new siding on. Everything. And moved in. Does your son ever come back up and visit? He comes every once in a while. Mainly I go to Maine. Do you like it there? It’s all right. Winter’s sorta a little discouraging for me. 10, 15, 20 below zero is for the birds. Especially with all the snow. Well, my grandson is in Limestone, Maine, going to school and my son got a weather forecast for him for 15 days. Out of the 15 days, they were supposed to have snow 11. What’s your favorite activity to do here on a normal day? Read my books. Where’s your favorite spot to read? Right where she’s sitting on the sofa. In fact, I was sitting there reading when you came up. That magazine there. Yeah, it’s talking about World War I. It’s been a hundred years since that. What’s your cat’s name? Peaches. Is Peaches good company when you’re reading? Yeah, she lays on my lap. Well, actually, I put the recliner up and she lays between my legs. When did you get Peaches? My girlfriend’s son brought those two over here. (points to painting of two cats above the couch.) And they were little kittens. And something happened to it. Someone either shot it or a coyote got the black one. And he’s been here ever sense. It’s probably been a year and half, two years now. Does she shed a lot? Yes. Yeah, you need a vacuum cleaner all the time. �Does Peaches ever go outside? All time time. Yeah, she got a door. She goes through the sliding glass door. It’s got a section in it, it’s got an animal door in the bottom of it where they go in and out. She never got attacked by the dogs? Not that I know of. She never said anything. Camille: Were there any animals at Bird Haven? Yeah, my dog. I always had a dog when I was a kid. Like a hunting dog? Nah, just a mutt. When I was homeschooled at Bird Haven, someone threw a dog out and she had pups and I got one of them. It was a good dog. It hunted. It’d bring my mother rabbits. Alive. She was always proud. She’d sit in the door of the paint shop where Mom worked and sat there with her rabbit when she was ready to go off work. Did your parents like Bird Haven? Oh yeah. You see it was my dad’s homeplace was right there on Bird Haven. He was born in West Virginia, but they also had a place there where they stayed. My dad’s mother was fullblooded Cherokee Indian. And she believed that you should own property because they don’t make anymore and she died when I was a baby, probably out and maybe two or three months old and she had a massive heart attack and died. So I never do remember her. Do you keep up Cherokee traditions? No, we can’t document it. We know who we are, but we can’t document it. Even my cousin out in Oklahoma tried to adopt the manner of it and couldn’t. Why not? Well, nobody’s got a record of it. Your grandmother also lived on bird Haven? Yep. Was she born there? I don’t know where she was born, somewhere in Carolina. How did your family end up on Bird Haven? �I have no idea. That’s before my time. I guess mainly because my daddy worked there. He’d been there for years. Ever since I can remember. So it was prior to ’38. So that was just home to him? Yeah. What about your mom’s family? She was born in Jerome. She was one of 13 kids and they lived on a small farm and all the kids had to work on the farm. But then they moved? Yeah, she always worked somewhere. So your parents had really skillful trades? Right. Do you remember a lot about what they did? Yeah, I remember most of it. Like my grandmother and grandfather were farmers and a lot of the kids, one was a school teacher, another used to be a manager of Leggett’s department stores up in Delaware but Harrisonburg is where he started. Used to be one of them on main street. Right where the square is. And they worked all kinds of jobs. They had one that was a mechanic down in Martinsurg, West Virginia, another kept running the farm. And the girls, they all married and lived all over the country. But, basically, all of them are still in Virginia. Now there’s one girl left she’s about 95 right now. And there’s two — one, two, three — of the boys left. And they’re all in their 80s. Do you keep in touch with anyone that you knew from Bird Haven? There’s no one here really to keep in touch with. Well, David Kline, yeah I know him. And Kurtis and Robert. They’re brothers. That’s about it. Now Leroy Pope, down in Edinburg, gotta see him every once in a while. Now he worked back here. Which was funny because he was back at Bob’s little store back here, trying to find Bird Haven. And my daddy’s there and he asked him “well, what do you want to know about it?” and he was like “Well I wanna see if I can get a job.” And he said, “Well, I’ll take you back and show you where it’s at.” And then he said “you’re hired.” And he said “What do you mean?” “You’re hired. I just hired you.” So he worked there for years, too. So did you learn woodworking from your dad? Basically, from watching him and everything. �Was he a good teacher? Yeah. I tried to get him to open up his own shop after it closed there but he wouldn’t do it. He was afraid of this and that, you know. Would you ever wanna do that? I don’t really wanna do anything now. I’m too old to worry about it. What year did you retire? I retired when I was 62. So must’ve been 16 years ago. Yeah. I mean I do whatever I want to do. I don’t do whatever I don’t want to do. I mean every summer I like to ride my bike. Oh, long trips. I like going to Texas, down to Florida. You name it. How long does that take? Well, if I go to the West Coast, it takes about a month. You know, by the time you see things, go to Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, four corners and around through Utah. There’s a lot of scenery. And I love to stop at museums. Especially the military museums. What’s the best one you’re been to? Pensacola. The naval station. They have a gigantic air museum there. Now this summer I wanna go to Dayton, Ohio, and go through the Air Force Museum there. That’ll probably take three days or so. To go through it. I like to see everything while I’m there. I don’t like to rush through it. Have you taken a bike trip to Florida before? Yep. I went to Pensacola. Are you going to bike to Dayton? Yup. All my traveling I do during the summer is on motorcycle. Soon as the weather breaks. Our first trip will be the third Sunday in May. We go to Pigeon Forge. Which is just a short trip. To some of the other guys it’s a long trip but for me it’s just getting started. I drove to Maine, been up to Canada. �Yeah, I just like the idea, I don’t know why. What’s the farthest you’ve gone? I’ve gone all the way to California, all the way up into Canada. California would be the farthest. I think that trip we rode almost 8,000 miles. What was your favorite sight to see? Yellowstone. Did you go and explore? Yeah, we rode all through Yellowstone, we saw Old Faithful, you name it. We saw it all. E: Do you know the band Rush? R: What? E: My dad likes this band called Rush. And the drummer, whenever they go on tour, he just rides his motorcycle to the places. R: Oh, ok. E: And he writes books about it, too. So what was the most recent trip you’ve taken? Well, I just went to Pigeon Forge. I had a lot of doctor’s appointments so I couldn’t really do any riding last year. The year before that I went to Waco, Texas, to the Texas Rangers Museum and down to Corpus Christi and down in that aircraft carrier. That was a good trip. Especially when you get down to that hundred-degree weather. Now, Palo Duro Canyon is fun too. It’s just south of Amarillo. Yeah, it’s the second largest canyon in the United States. Who do you go on these trips with? My nephew and I went to Utah one year. We was gone about three weeks, I guess. And back through Colorado and around. A lot of times I go with Glenn Franklin and Money Shoemaker, Jerry Crowder, Larry Prior. Just about a dozen of us that I ride with. Usually there’s only about four of us at a time. Or just two when the nephew and I go. We plan to go to Alaska in a year but he had an accident in the big city of Harrisonburg and broke his wrist. That eliminated that. Do you wear a leather jacket? A lot of times I wear a short-sleeved shirt. �Yeah, it gets a little warm. Leather is hot. I got a leather jacket I wear sometimes. I got the other with all the back support and the elbows. But that one was fairly cool in the summer because it’s got little air holes all over it. But still you got the protection. But when I got in the accident, when I had the leather jacket on, back in ’63, still got mud on it I haven’t been able to get off. Have you ever seen Rolling Thunder in D.C.? I’ve seen it on TV, but I’ve never been to it. That’s too much of a crowd for me. E: It’s overwhelming. R: Yeah. Have you been involved with it? E: Sometimes my parents and I go on a little bike road over there and watch it… R: Yeah, that is a mess. E: It’s cool though. R: Yeah. Been to Vietnam wall? World War II monument? The Iwo Jima monument? Yep. R: Oh, you’ve been to all of them. Yeah, I live very close. And the Korean War one? Yeah. Oh, ok. R: You know, the guy who did the Iwo Jima monument used to live in Mt. Clifton. Yep. That’s where he passed away at. What inspired him to make it? I guess just seeing the flag raise in Iwo Jima so then he made the monument. In fact, I got pictures somewhere on the Iwo. There was like a set in stone cliff. Some GI had come in there and carved out the flag raising on there and then white-washed it. And it looks just like looking at the statue. This guy was really good. But I don’t know who did it. See when I was there on the anniversary of the battle, they had the marines come in and they would have this ceremony and raise a new flag on top of Mt. Suribachi. Now the Japanese own it again. �Have you been up to those monuments in D.C.? Yeah, I’ve seen all of them. Did you ride your bike? No, not for that. That was years ago. What took you to D.C.? Just to see those monuments and things. And I’ve been to Arlington Cemetery. A few years ago I went down for a friend of ours. He had died and got buried there and we went out for the services. Which was very interesting. It’s so beautiful there. Yeah, it’s well-kept. What was the service like? It was very enlighting. Because of the case and everything, the way they do it. And what really gets you is they got all those tombstones laid out. I mean … it’s amazing how many people are buried there. E: I like how Peaches likes the tripod case a lot. R: Well, all you gotta do is throw a paper box down and she’ll be in it. Such a typical cat. Is she good company? Yeah, she’s a pain but she’s good company. Cats, they don’t talk a lot. They don’t give you any backtalk either. When was the last time you had a dog? Oh, God, it’s been 10, 12 years ago. See the little picture up here? Beside my grandson? The dog there, licking my head? That was the last dog I had. He was about 20 years old when I had to have him put to sleep. His heart was so bad that he couldn’t walk. He couldn’t walk from me to you. He’d keel over. That’s a long life, though. �Yeah, he was a good little mutt. He was supposed to be a purebred with long hair, a Mexican Chihuahua, but we never could figure out what he was. What was his name? Well, I called him Killer a lot, but his name was Teddy. A little different. Yep. Why Killer? Because he was a mean little devil. Like if you were sitting there, and he was sitting on the sofa beside you, I couldn’t touch you. Couldn’t even get close to you. If he was sitting beside her, same story. My dog, but he wouldn’t let me to ya. Whoever he was with, that’s who he’d protect. When I’d go to work, I’d have to hold his mouth shut if he was beside my wife to kiss her goodbye. So protective of other people. Yeah. And he would bite. My wife got a call one day that if she didn’t come to Germany within 72 hours she’d never see her mother alive again. So we put the dog in a dog hotel. And I come home from work at the end of the week and I go down to see him and I couldn’t bring him home so I took him some rawhide bones to chew on. I walked in and that dog was jumping that high off the floor because he thought he was going home. And the girls told me “don’t come back until you’re ready to take him home.” Well, my wife came back from Germany and picked him up and I come home the second weekend and I say “how you doing, Teddy?” He bit me in the hand and I mean blood flew everywhere. It was three days before that dog had a thing to do with me. And I wasn’t the one who put him there, I just left him there. But a long-living dog. Yep. I had a cat that lived for 21 years. After my wife had passed away, I walk out the garage one day and it was laying there on the mat and I thought it must be sleeping and then I realized hmm it’s not breathing. Yeah, she just died in her sleep. Oh, what a way to go … We saw an alpaca on our way here. Yeah, they get those. It keeps the coyotes out from their cattle and stuff. Oh yeah, they’re just like a watch dog, except bigger. I didn’t know that. Yeah they get ’em and put them in with their cattle and stuff. Keeps coyotes and stuff away. �Are there a lot of them over here? Quite a few. Have you ever had one? Uh-uh. No. They seem like they’d be fluffy pets. Noooo, you must be talking about the llama because the alpacas are a lot bigger. They’re great until they spit on you. Have you ever been spit on? No, never been around them much. But if you’re going across Wolf Gap Road into Wes Virginia, there’s a place over there just after you pass Perry Zoo, on the left, they used to have 25-30 of those over there. Of the llamas. I don’t know if he sold them or what he did, but I mean he had a whole field full of them. Camille: They’re like a really good investment. There’s an alpaca field down in Monida, Virginia, and my dad has a house down there. And ill go and play with the alpacas. Because they can be insured and get good money. It’s a good business. What was the one they had back, not an ostrich, some other type of bird. I mean these people made all kinds of money and then pfft that was the end of that. But yeah they were high dollar. Someone said the meat was selling for $60 a pound. But it’s like everything else. The gold rush is over. These ones, they like the fibers. It’s good for sweaters and stuff. Yeah, it’s supposed to be real soft. So where’s the farthest place you’ve traveled to, outside the United States? Iwo Jima. I forget how many miles it is to get to Japan, and then you have another 750 from Japan down to Iwo Jima. One of those Pacific Paradises. Was it pretty, despite the issues? It was pretty, like it was ugly. There was a good looking female behind every tree but we didn’t have anything but a shrub bush. We didn’t have any trees because they’d all been blown up during the war. Never growing back then until ten years after the war was over. How long were you there for? �I was there for a year. It was an isolated tour of duty. And it was actually a refueling emergency landing strip. We had aircrafts … in fact the aircraft than I came from Iwo back home on had been there four times with engine problems. People would leave and get on a plane to Japan and end up back at Iwo again until they got the plane fixed again. What was your favorite thing about serving? About service? I guess just being with all the other troops. Just like a bunch of brothers, like a family In a way, was it like living in Bird Haven? Well, my family was smaller, it was just three kids and my parents. But right down the road there, was my grandparents. They had 13 kids and God only knows how many grandchildren. So it was a pretty tight-knit group. Do you miss it at all? At times, yeah. At times I especially miss my parents even though they’ve been gone for years. Yeah. I miss my wife, too. Even though she’s been gone for 20 years. I feel like you can never forget that, though. Yeah, it’s hard to, you know. Do you have any other final thoughts on Bird Haven? Not really, no. I didn’t know anything about it coming into this. Oh, ok. Well, I remember back when I was a kid the small factory. They had at least 28 people working there. They worked six days a week. That’s how much they had. And after the owner died, it was left to his step-son and he ran it into the ground. I mean that thing would still be going if they had had someone who managed it. But he would take everything they made and instead of putting in orders, I mean they had orders shipping all over the the United States. He’d take it up to New Market and sell it beside the road and pocket the money and just let the factory go. And that was the reason it ended up closing up. It wasn’t that they didn’t have the business. They had the business. But he wouldn’t let them fill the orders. He was a great guy. His nickname was Parasite. How did he get that? That was the nickname I had for him. �Any particular reason why? Yeah. Because he was always stealing everything. The only thing he was interested in was himself. I feel like that’s the antithesis of what Bird Haven was. True. I don’t know what year it was opened or anything. Here’s some of the stuff that they made. A cheese plate, a salad bowl. Who’s Philip Bard? I’m not really sure. Oh, he’s not related to you. He was a little bit before my time. Did they have a lot of social events? No. The main thing around here was uh… oh this is of Bryce Mountain. What inspired the design of these items? You know, I have not the faintest idea. They used to make them, I don’t know if it’s in there, but the big cobbler’s manch. I always wanted one, but never did end up with one. Made out of magazine racks. And a lot of small stuff. And everything made from maple, they got most of the lumber out of West Virginia. Had their own dry kiln where they dried it out. They got it fresh cut. Did you ever make anything that was sold? No. Everything I ever made I gave away. That’s nice. So when you moved back to Bird Haven, where did you work? When I moved back here I was retired. I didn’t do anything. I’m a firm believer that when you retire, that’s what it means. You don’t do anything. Except mow the lawn and take care of your junk. I look forward to the day. Well, thank you so much for talking to us. And it’s so pretty out here. It’s a nice reprieve from college. �Yeah, well just down the road out here there’s a ski slope. Have you been down there? Well, I was gonna say if you want to I can take you down there and show you that. Is it right outside? Yeah. Yeah, we’ll see it. Do you have anything else you want to add? Not that I can think of. I’ll think of it after you leave. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bird Haven Oral History Collection Subject The topic of the resource Bird Haven (Va) Shenandoah Community Workers Description An account of the resource Sometime in the early 1920s Philadelphia banker and philanthropist William Bernard Clark founded the Shenandoah Community Workers organization near what is now Basye Virginia. This group was designed to provide locals, many of which were economically disadvantaged, with good paying jobs based on their wood working traditions. Clark built a factory on property his grandmother had purchased as a personal retreat and named it Bird Haven Virginia. Initially the community workers focused on wooden toys and puzzles. Many of these featured birds, Hollywood Stars, or animals. Later the company began to produce small wooden furniture, bowls, and kitchen utensils. Bird Haven closed sometime in the early 1960s. Following this, most of the records were lost and much of the site's history was forgotten. This oral history project, conducted as part of a partnership between the Shenandoah County Library, James Madison University, and Bird Haven Farm, is designed to recover some of lost parts of the site's story. It focuses on interviews of 14 members of the Bird Haven community, including several employees and individuals who lived nearby. All interviews and transcriptions were conducted by JMU history students and are available for viewing in person at the Shenandoah County Library's Truban Archives. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shenandoah County Library James Madison University Bird Haven Farm Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Emmy Freedman Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Richard Barb Location The location of the interview Bayse Virginia Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 57:39 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Barb Oral History Subject The topic of the resource Barb, Richard Bird Haven (Va) Basye (Va) Description An account of the resource Oral history featuring Richard Barb of Basye, Virginia, recorded by Emmy Freedman of James Madison University. The interview was conducted as part of a project designed to better understand the history of Bird Haven Virginia, the Shenandoah Community Workers, and the surrounding communities. The entry includes a video interview, podcast highlighting the interview, and downloadable transcript (under files). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emmy Freedman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Shenandoah Voices Oral History Collection <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xshOi-g1_8s" frameborder="0"></iframe> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 20, 2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource MP3 File Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Video Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2017-007 Basye Bird Haven Oral History Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/afba37092da0455b789342422e9bfaae.pdf 4b93ef0f2ce35cd08874f9883be614e7 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Leads All-Area Picks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Free Press p.4 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Not to be republished without permission Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Shenandoah County Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspaper Clippings Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource High School Football Description An account of the resource Article about the All-Area High School Football Team Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Evan Benton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 3 2013