5 25 35718 https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/e4c4d2e7569f142203eab95e34fb932a.jpg c1b0ab2df7b9dd2b41edb467419a723b 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 "Little Church" and Great North Mountain From Bryce's Hillside Cottages Subject The topic of the resource Bryce Resort (Bayse Va.) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the view from Bryce's Hillside Cottages in Bayse Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 603 Bayse Bryce Mountains Postcards Resort Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/a251879df40c73b72cd4bec464e07fbc.jpg 216f9fe2cabffae1d531aabc37ffd981 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 Shrine of the Transfiguration Subject The topic of the resource Orkney Springs (Va) Shrines-Virginia-Shenandoah County Cathedrals-Virginia-Shenandoah County Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the "Shrine of the Transfiguration" at the Shrine Mont resort in Orkney Springs Virginia. The shrine was built in 1925 as an open air cathedral operated the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 628 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca. 1930 Hotels Orkney Springs Postcards Resort Shrine Mont Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/8615c8d3990bfba85612e07857e45cdf.jpg 2736becf2fcd7ad61e38b4c6b89bc497 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 Night-time scene from Massanutten Mountain Showing Lee Highway and New Market Va. Subject The topic of the resource New Market (Va) Mountain Roads-Virginia-Shenandoah County Description An account of the resource Photographic postcard showing a nighttime scene of the Shenandoah Valley. The image view was taken from atop New Market Gap in the Massanutten Mountain Range facing west toward the Town of New Market Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1935 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 694 New Market Postcards Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/4ad655c1a38b0955588fc2246526b37a.jpg 124b496425a710fb31e85381e32aa642 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 New Market Gap Tourist Camp Subject The topic of the resource Shenandoah National Forest Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the New Market Gap Tourist Camp located in what was the Shenandoah National Forest, now the George Washington National Forest. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 695 Camps National Forest New Market New Market Gap Postcards Tourists Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/3b6e283f9ddc636e70793ce527daddff.jpg 8318a1faaa748a50aafeb9e73a6f366f 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 Lee Highway and Massanutten Mountain Range Subject The topic of the resource Lee Highway (Shenandoah County VA) Massanutten Mountain Description An account of the resource Postcard showing a view of the Lee Highway and Massanutten Mountain range from the area of the New Market Gao. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1933 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 705 Massanutten Mountain New Market Gap Postcards https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/3bddff9af82437034617e13c141d1e80.jpg e04c822f680fe7e73fc6ca00ec0f50fe 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 Lee Highway on Massanutten Mountain Subject The topic of the resource Lee Highway (Shenandoah County VA) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Lee Highway in the area of New Market Gap. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 706 Lee Highway New Market Gap Postcards Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/7e790a7378cb6cab4e38905ff5824667.jpg a0a236f4215b5d55aa6dbf05b48cf00f 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 A Scene Near Forest Camp Service Station Subject The topic of the resource Forest Camp Service Station (New Market VA) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing a view from the New Market Gap a top the Massanutten Mountain. Photo was taken from near the Forest Camp Service Station. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 707 Gaps New Market Postcards Skyline Drive Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/a28158e35fd036d642eff6393faee4b4.jpg 391bae36feb8addca87f0fdbcd1abb59 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 New Market Gap Tourist Camp Subject The topic of the resource New Market Gap Tourist Camp (Shenandoah County VA) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the tourist camp located at the New Market Gap in Shenandoah County Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 709 Camps New Market Gap Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/24b767eeeac256236a4d8120a9f96655.jpg 9a38868e33603b98f5670e3df0de2dd7 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 Re-enactment of the Battle of New Market, Va. Subject The topic of the resource New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864 New Market (Va) Historical reenactments-Virginia-New Market U.S. Civil War Description An account of the resource Postcard showing individuals conducting a reenactment of the Battle of New Market. The postcard was produced by the Asheville Post Card Company and is undated. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 745 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Battlefield Civil War New Market Postcards Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/a85b3b4e8b0706ebade2bd8e05c8a0dc.jpg d916adce799ffb5301801aa8235ff197 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 Lee-Jackson Hotel New Market VA Subject The topic of the resource Lee Jackson Hotel (New Market VA) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Lee-Jackson Hotel in New Market Virginia. Card notes it is "on the corner" of US Highway 11 and 211. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 787 Hotels Lee-Jackson New Market Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/412585df152fa5d40f2d64ee5834a178.jpg 24a5ba21941ba835f347ed3cb13c22c5 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 Lee-Jackson Hotel Subject The topic of the resource Lee-Jackson Hotel (New Market VA) Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Lee-Jackson Hotel and central section of downtown in New Market Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 788 Hotels Lee-Jackson New Market Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/8f3b384cf997e335a4288dd1cbc70905.jpg 6caf5d4586ab819685c35e2dcc11479f 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 Shell Struck Post Subject The topic of the resource New Market VA Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the post struck by a shell during the Battle of New Market, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 790 Civil War New Market Postcards Posts Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/e00a89a770a2d55c6e2a51dd47dd31f6.jpg a1d033d45cc1c1922bf10f11de7a768d 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 Kennedy's Peak George Washington National Forest Near Luray VA Subject The topic of the resource George Washington National Forest Description An account of the resource Postcard showing Kennedy's Peak in the George Wasgintgon National Forest near Luray Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 879 Forests Kennedy's Peak Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/6db59dcb0e8773996ae2a907310676d4.jpg b672f20d80078797d1313f3c40475a57 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 Howard Johnson's Subject The topic of the resource Howard Johnson's Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Harrisonburg Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1959 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 929 Harrisonburg Howard Johnson Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/6d507e0db6bec7917da03ad2487ac5e1.jpg dae00658705ef1b2b210ba7cfeec2be9 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 Old Lincoln Homestead Near Harrisonburg VA Subject The topic of the resource Lincoln Family Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Lincoln Family Homestead near Harrisonburg Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 931 Family Harrisonburg Lincoln Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/a9651c4de3cd89bafc65ba9a81e9c7db.jpg e8fcb065bc0b10907c5f0edbe37d63d0 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 Blue Stone Inn- Lacey Springs VA Subject The topic of the resource Lacey Springs Virginia Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Blue Stone Inn in Lacey Springs Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 933 Hotels Lacey Spring Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/588c780fa6f07229c8045fca88bb4eef.jpg 29ce4e633b6771ec7a018d479eaaa517 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 Airplane View of Madison College, Harrisonburg VA Subject The topic of the resource James Madison University Description An account of the resource Postcard showing an aerial view of Madison College (now James Madison University) in Harrisonburg Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Post Card Company, Asheville NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 941 Harrisonburg JMU Postcards Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/56cf7d775844d9a3ce742868750300d8.jpg bc6e766c8a861b50edc55d748c00a591 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 U.S. Post Office and Government Court House, Harrisonburg VA Subject The topic of the resource Harrisonburg VA Post Office Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the building that held the United States Post Office and Court House in Harrisonburg Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Postcard Company Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 948 Postcards https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/8cdbcf1a933f01650478ec830673d263.jpg 816a5602b382a936387c95299cfde584 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 Eastern Mennonite School, Harrisonburg Va. Subject The topic of the resource Eastern Mennonite University Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Eastern Mennonite School (now University) in Harrisonburg Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Postcard Company Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 950 Postcards https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/327e0ebf64812317fe883d244bc10b27.jpg b2a32fef6950ab143c360708453cc1be 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 Sunset View of Eastern Mennonite School, Harrisonburg VA Subject The topic of the resource Eastern Mennonite University Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Eastern Mennonite School (now University) near Harrisonburg Virginia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Postcard Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 952 Postcards https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/4f18c7a6e9fc3347b36b9bb02f31ef02.jpg 340d8caa0d66526f8155cc3cc0a24d15 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 Stonewall Mill Dam on Shenandoah River Subject The topic of the resource Stonewall Mill Dam Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Stonewall Mill Dam on the Shenandoah Rive in Virginia, most likely near Woodstock. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Postcard Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 955 Postcards https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/f8df5b33acf7ecdfbd8ed1704ea29adb.jpg 1735ee4a74c87aa7f6df2446f094a102 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. 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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 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Jpeg Language A language of the resource English Title A name given to the resource Lee-Jackson Hotel, New Market VA Subject The topic of the resource New Market (Va) Hotels-Virginia-New Market United States Highway 11 Description An account of the resource Postcard showing the Lee-Jackson Hotel on the corner of US Highway Number 11 and Number 211 in New Market Virginia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asheville Postcard Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated Relation A related resource More information about the hotel available at http://archives.countylib.org/tour/items/show/15 Hotels New Market Postcards Route 11 Shenandoah County Virginia https://archives.countylib.org/files/original/da1b09fb84c38083fec54ab8b0af52ca.pdf ec175892d7e67407a9a49b1da0adbb07 PDF Text Text Ashlen Clark HIST 441 April 11, 2017 This interview was conducted with Betty Richards on March 22, 2017 by Ashlen Clark with assistance from Tiernan O’Rourke on the topic of Bird Haven. AC: This is Ashlen Clark interviewing… BR: Betty Richards… AC: About Bird Haven. Mrs. Richards how did you come to work at Bird Haven? BR: Well it was right after I got married. The first job I had. And it was close to where I lived, I could walk. And also my husband’s grandmother worked at the, for the family. She did their cooking and cleaned the house and that’s how I got my job. And I think I worked probably maybe two years. I’m not sure, I can’t remember. But then I had my first child and I, I didn’t work anymore for a while. AC: Alright. You said you lived close by, you could walk. So did, you, knew about Bird Haven before you started working there? BR: Oh yes, yeah. AC: Was it a place that before you started working there you visited a lot, or is it just something that you didn’t really visit, or how was that? BR: Well I visited with my husband’s grandmother I helped her sometimes to clean or whatever. And I knew what the place looked like and everything. Yeah. AC: Was it, the family that lived there, was it just the family that owned Bird Haven or were there other people that lived there? BR: No it was just the family that owned Bird Haven, it was Mr. and Mrs. Clark, and Mrs. Clark was married before and she had two sons. And the one son run the place, John Gray Paul is his name, and we called him Spizz. AC: Why did you call him that? BR: I don’t know, he had a nickname, someone gave him that nickname and I don’t know how, why, and he always when he come, he, he would stay at the house a lot and come over and �check on, you know, what we were doing and everything. And he had two cocker spaniels and every time we’d see them cocker spaniels we knew he was coming. AC: That’s really great. BR: He was a good, he was a good boss. AC: Yeah? BR: Yeah. AC: So did you have a lot of interaction with him? BR: Well, yeah. And nothing like any parties or anything but he was real friendly and nice. AC: So when you were working there what was your role? What was your typical day like? BR: Well it was about, I’d say 8 or 10 women in one, one building and the men would make the things and they would bring them to us and we had to sand them and then they’d have to be stained and then it would have to be sanded again and then a shellac or something put on it. And then from there it would go up to the, it was a post office back there then. It would go up to that building and the orders would be carried out and packed and sent. AC: Okay. So when you, when the packages were sent out were they mostly local people that were ordering or further away or do you know? BR: No it was lot of different states. AC: Okay so a fairly big production? BR: Yeah, yeah. And we made a lot of things. I had a lot of them but I moved about eight times since I’ve been married and every time I moved I guess I left something. ‘Cause, or I gave it away. So, and I gave my minister a tray that he wanted it had the label on it. AC: Oh wow. BR: And he died and we told his son to be sure and let us get, buy it back but we didn’t get it. AC: Shame when that happens. When you were working in the shops, what was your, what specifically did you do with the pieces? BR: I helped to sand the things off and stain them. And then we had a lady that, she had a, you know, a machine that she would spray them, spray the things. �AC: Okay. So did you come to work there because it was some place close or because you had a connection or what brought you to start working there? BR: Well I, this was back in 1948 when I got married and wasn’t too many jobs around that area and because it was close and they needed somebody and I applied for it and I got it. Yeah. AC: Awesome. So how would you describe the environment like within the community and within the shops? Was it a good place to work? Did you enjoy your time there? BR: Oh yes. Everybody that work there was real friendly and we all got along good. Yeah we had a lot of fun, I mean, even though we all worked, we still had a lot of fun. AC: Yeah? BR: Yeah. AC: Were they mostly people that you knew outside of work from the community, or did you meet them at work? Were they local people? Br: Most of them were local. Now some of them came from over in Mount Clifton which is not too far from Bayse. And well now the one man lives in Edinburgh, but he didn’t live there when he worked there. But I think most of them were local. AC: Okay. What kind of impact on the community would you say that Bird Haven had since it employed a lot of local people? Was it positive for the community? BR: Yeah it was. Yeah it gave people work and make a living and I worked, back then I made 80 dollars a month working there. They only paid, I don’t think they paid every week, it was like every two weeks. AC: Okay. So for the people who weren’t local and like main community members, how did they react to bird haven? Did they, like, people come visit from outside or how did, how did Bird Haven interact with further away… BR: Well back then Bryce, they called it Bryce Hillside Cottages, was open and a lot of people, that was busy all summer long. And of course people that would come there and to Orkney also would visit local places. And I’m sure they, that he sold a lot of things right there. AC: Okay so it was, you could actually buy things from Bird Haven rather than ordering them and it being mailed to you? BR: Yeah. And the workers could buy, you know, anything. I can’t remember if we got a discount or not but I, I had quite a few things. I had a magazine cradle, and I had a saw book table but I don’t know what happened to those. Well I gave some of them to my mother-in-law �and I had trays and we made lazy Susans but I never, that I didn’t want. But I got a few things. I got those little stools and some trays. And we made salad bowls and forks and the little bowls to go with it. Those were a good seller. AC: Oh wow, yeah. BR: Yeah. They were a good item, they sold good. AC: So what was the most common thing ordered, or the most popular items? BR: Probably the salad bowls. AC: Okay. BR: ‘Cause it was a big bowl and then the little ones and then the salad fork and spoon. And it was all made out of wood. AC: Wow. BR: And of course there was instructions with that with how to do it because you, you couldn’t do too much water on that wood. AC: Right. So what kind of instructions would come along with that? BR: Well like every once and a while to oil, just your regular oil that you use to cook with, to maybe just clean it with that. And dry it good. AC: Okay. Cool. We had a little bit of background information that we were given and it talked about how some of the items that were made represented like the heritage of people in the community. Did you see that represented through the stuff that was made? BR: Well, when, I don’t know what year Bird Haven really started but they made toys and also puzzles. Now we weren’t making those when I started. AC: Okay. BR: I never saw any of those. AC: Okay. BR: They, they’d already sold them all and changed over to different, the other different things that we were making. �AC: Okay so it was, they didn’t make everything, like all of that, their entire span? They kind of transitioned into the other products? BR: Yeah they changed from the puzzles and the toys and, to more things that were I guess more useful. AC: Interesting. BR: Now I don’t know who changed it or why, but I. (phone ringing) Uh oh. Excuse me a minute. AC: You’re fine. TO: Go ahead. BR: Hello? Can I call you back I’m being interviewed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright bye. That was my minister. AC: Oh. That’s fine. BR: Now did that upset… AC: No it can be cut out, and we can just put it right back together. BR: Oh well you, could you hear what I said on the phone or anything? AC: No I couldn’t, I couldn’t hear you. BR: Okay. I mean, I hope it didn’t mess you up. AC: No, no, no, no. We can, when we put it on the computer we can take out parts. BR: Oh okay. AC: So we can, if you want us to take that out, we can just take it out and put it right back together. How did having this job at Bird Haven as your first job, how did that effect future jobs you had or just anything? BR: Oh well I don’t know. I guess I just learned to work. ‘Cause I was young and, I don’t know, it was just nice and everybody got along good and everything just sure is different now. AC: Yeah? �BR: Yeah. And let’s see, from there I didn’t work for a good while, then, because I had four children and I didn’t work until I had that last one and then I worked at Bryce and I worked at a apple place where we graded apples. And I don’t know I just learned to work. AC: Yeah. So but it was a good, good experience as a first job? BR: Oh yeah, yeah it was nice. I mean everybody got along good. We just had a lot of, a lot of fun. AC: Yeah, good. BR: In fact, the one man you’re going to interview we picked on him a lot. AC: Really? Why did you pick on him? BR: Oh just, nice, it wasn’t mean or anything. AC: Yeah. BR: But he was really, he really was good to get along with. Yeah I still once and a while talk to him. AC: Good. So are you still, you said you talk to him, but are you, are you in contact with a lot of people that you worked with? (phone ringing) BR: Excuse me again. AC: You’re fine. BR: Hello? Betty? I’m being interviewed now, I’ll call you back. Alright. That was a lady from my church. AC: Oh, you’re a popular woman. Do you still keep in contact with the people you worked with? I know you mentioned the one man. BR: Yeah, I don’t, I talk to him once and a while and once in a while I get to see him but I don’t visit much anymore. I guess I’ve gotten lazy and I’m old and I just like to stay at home. AC: Yeah that’s fair. BR: But once in a while I do talk to him on the phone. �AC: Okay that’s good. So even after you stopped working, you said you stopped to have kids. Did you stay local, did you stay involved with the community? BR: Yeah I stayed local for a good while and then we moved to Maryland and lived down there, I think it was like seven or nine years, and then I didn’t like the city. So I moved back and I lived up there for a couple years and then we built this house, this was my home-place. That big house down there was where I was born and raised. AC: Oh wow. BR: And so we built this and I just, we moved back here. And I worked up at that country store that’s closed for, oh I don’t know, probably close to twenty years. AC: Wow. BR: And yeah I stayed in the area. AC: Yeah. BR: And I go to that church up there. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah. AC: Did you see a difference in the local area once Bird Haven closed and stopped providing jobs there? BR: No, I don’t think so because a lot of people had cars and they would, you know, go a distance to work and a lot of people would even go down to the city from our area to work everyday. AC: Oh wow. Okay. When we were talking to one of our other interviewees, they mentioned how after Bird Haven closed there was kind of an in between period but then in more recent years there’s kind of been an uptick in the interest in the items that were created at Bird Haven. Have you noticed anything about that? BR: You mean, since the new owners took over and bought the place and they started having a lot of animals and ducks and chickens and stuff. AC: Oh okay. BR: Yeah it’s been interesting. �AC: Yeah. BR: Yeah and also the people that bought it, their, it was the woman’s grandmother that was from this area. And her husband, she and her husband I think it was, had a little resort on past Bird Haven. It was called Shenandoah Alum springs. And so see the, it all kind of dates back to, she, she was her, her grandparents and parents were from this area, that own it now. AC: Oh so have you been back down there since it closed? BR: One time. After, let’s see, yeah I’ve been there since they took over. AC: Okay. BR: ‘Cause it was, it’s a big difference in what, now they have it, ‘cause it, they did a lot of different things. In fact, they moved the big house. AC: Really? BR: That Mr. and Mrs. Clark lived in. Now I haven’t been back since they moved that, I’d like to see where it is. AC: Yeah? BR: Yeah it was a beautiful place and it was a lot of land and it was a couple houses on it. AC: So were those houses occupied at the time? BR: No, maybe one of them was but other than that no. AC: Okay. When you went back were all the old buildings still there? BR: Yeah. AC: Did they still have stuff in them? BR: Yeah, in fact, they said when they closed it was a lot of the, like, the bowls and other things that were made was still in there that they had never, never got rid of. Now I don’t know what they did with it or if they still have it or what. AC: Yeah. Do you know why Bird Haven closed? BR: No. Mr. John Gray Paul went to, moved to Harrisonburg. Well let’s see, I guess his mother and his step-father probably died and then I guess he didn’t want to keep it up. I really don’t know. I can’t remember. But he went to Harrisonburg and he was a lawyer. �AC: Oh. BR: I think he’s still living, I’m not sure. AC: Okay. Interesting. BR: Mr. Polk could probably tell you, the, the man that worked there too that’s still living, he could probably tell you if Mr., if John Gray Paul is still living. I don’t, I can’t remember if he is or not. AC: Okay. BR: I think if he is he’d be pretty old. AC: Yeah? BR: Yeah. AC: So you said you have some of the products from Bird Haven. Do you know, has there been a bigger interest in those items since they’re no longer being produced? BR: Well I think anybody that sees them at, some of them come up at auctions, they have, we have an auction every week down in Edinburgh. And I’m sure some of those come up in auctions and yeah people are interested in it. Now that one right there my, my daughter’s friend gave to her and it’s a name on the back of who owned it. AC: Oh. BR: And I guess it was probably bought at a sale. And what it is I don’t know. If its… AC: This one? BR: Yeah. If it’s supposed to be a bowl, I don’t know what it’s supposed to be. AC: Interesting. BR: I, maybe I need to take that down to Mr. Polk and let him look at it. See if he can tell me what it is because he worked there before I started. AC: Okay. Awesome. TO: Do you want me to get that? �AC: No we can get it in a second. Let’s see. Were there any other things that you had come to mind that you remember, or even just positive stories or anything about Bird Haven? BR: Well the only thing else, in the ladies, it was like, about everybody was relation. It was two sisters, in fact it was two, two bunches of two, four sisters that two of them were, you know, sisters. It was Hazel and Pearl Ryman were sisters and then Lena and I can’t remember her sisters name, and, you know, it was like family worked there. And all of us knew everybody. You know we were all friends and it was just nice. And I think about today if I had to go apply for a job, I don’t do computers, I don’t know how I’d get one. AC: So a lot different than jobs now? BR: Oh yeah. Of course that’s been, well I’m 85 and I was probably 18 when I, or maybe 19, when I got that job. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah. It’s a lot different from now when it was back then. A lot different. In fact, people helped each other more back then than they do now. AC: Yeah. So we also were told about just like, the many different types of equipment that was there. Were you mostly just using the sander? Because you talked about sanding. Did you use any of the other equipment? BR: No, no we did it by hand, but then like I said, they had a machine for the, to spray the bowls with the, whatever they used, I forget what it was, you know, to make the, so that especially the bowls, so they wouldn’t, so you could use them. AC: Yeah. BR: But so they sprayed everything. I mean it was some kind of finish they put on them. AC: Alright. BR: And they had the one item that it was really, really pretty was a cobbler’s bench coffee table. AC: Oh. BR: It was probably that big but it was expensive. AC: I’m sure. �BR: But it had a lot of little parts, you know, and was really a lot to do to get it to, so it was able to sell. I mean it was a lot of work to it. AC: Yeah. BR: But it was nice. AC: So definitely high quality objects? BR: Mhm. And we had tables, had folding tables. Oh and we had a lot of stuff. Right now I can’t, I wish I had kept a diary. More than once I get mad at myself I didn’t but it was quite a few items that they made. And that lazy Susan was a good seller. AC: Awesome. BR: Now what, what did you say this is going to go into? AC: This is, will eventually end up in the, I think Shenandoah Library archives. BR: Oh okay. AC: The people who own Bird Haven now are who kind of got this kick started, they wanted to find out more about it. BR: They come to our church once in a while. AC: Oh really. BR: Uh huh. See her grandmother, we have a, we did our ramp in her memory when she died. AC: Okay. BR: Because we got a lot of, people sent a lot of money in her memory. And she’s buried in our cemetery. AC: Oh wow. Wow. So you know the new owners fairly well? BR: Well I’ve met them, they’ve been to our church a couple times, yeah. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah they’re very nice. Have you met them? AC: No, no not yet. �BR: They’re young. Or to me they’re young, not as young as you, but they’re young. AC: I’m trying to think, you answered all of them really well, you kind of combined some of my questions together. The people that worked there that were local, do they still live in the area, do you know? I know you said you keep in contact with one of the men but… BR: He lives in Edinburgh and the lady that worked there too. She worked there I guess after I quit, she lives in Woodstock. AC: Okay. BR: And we had one lady when she left and went to the bank, she worked in the bank for I don’t know how many years. So a lot of them went different places and got jobs. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah. AC: Yeah. Were there any stories you had about working there, things that, I don’t know, because I, just really anything that you can think of that we haven’t touched on even just small things? BR: Well I got one but I better not tell it. TO: Definitely tell it. BR: Well I told you that our boss had two, two cocker spaniels. Well we were allowed a break in the morning and a break in the afternoon and also we had I think was a half hour for lunch. And we could always see when he was coming cause those dogs would be ahead of him. Course we didn’t, I mean, we didn’t, take advantage of him. We did our breaks like we were supposed to and everything. But it was kind of a joke, you know, that he, when we’d see those dogs, he was behind some place. Yeah. But he was nice, he was a very nice boss. AC: So, at Bird Haven, what was it, how was it kind of set up? Was it in like open fields, was it lots of trees around, where the buildings close together, what was like the layout? BR: Yeah the buildings were all close together, you all haven’t been back there? AC: No. BR: Well you should go back there. Yeah the buildings were all like in a, you know, together, and it, the post office was back there at that time too. And the house was over, kind of over in the field from the buildings and it was a stream run through it. It was a beautiful place. And the �one couple that worked there, they lived on a house across the stream right close to the building where we worked. AC: Wow so people lived real close? BR: Yeah. And then it was another house down from, down further in the woods, it’s a lot of woods, around there. And it was a house that was real, built real funny. It had, the doors were double, you know what I mean, like the Dutch. Remember, you probably remember how the Dutch, when you went to school you learned that stuff, how they had their doors. Well it had a door like that and it, but it sat empty for years and years and years. I don’t know what they did with it now. If they repaired it and somebody lives in it or what, I don’t know. My son goes down there right often, him and another man from the community and I mean they talk to the people that own it. Yeah. AC: Okay. BR: Now you’re not going to have all of this on it? AC: Well we can cut parts. And if there’s anything that you want us to go back and cut out we have a release form that you can just make note of that there. BR: So you’ll send me a copy of what this sounds like? AC: If you want a copy we can get you a copy. BR: Yeah I’d like to, yeah. AC: Yeah, yeah we can definitely get you a copy. BR: Yeah. AC: Oh I had something else. BR: I see Sam’s made a friend. TO: Yeah. I’ve been playing with him this whole time. He’s really adorable. I wanted to try to keep the meowing out of it so I just started petting him. Team work. AC: So you said you were born and raised right up the road? BR: Right down there. AC: Right down there? �BR: In that next house. AC: Oh okay. BR: My daughter lives there now and of course she put a big addition to it. AC: How do you feel about that? BR: Well its nice, but now she wishes she wouldn’t, because now she lives by herself. AC: Oh okay. BR: But when she did that she was married and had, he had two children they were small and she did that so that everybody would have a bedroom and everything but now they’re all gone. AC: Okay. BR: So she’s by herself and it’s a big house to keep up for heat and stuff. AC: Yeah. So you said that the owners of Bird Haven, they lived on the property, so were they involved in the day to day a lot or were they kind of more, you guys just ran everything? BR: Oh you mean back when we were… AC: Yeah. BR: Yeah they lived on the property. AC: Yeah. BR: But Mr. and Mrs. Clark, they didn’t come over and check on anything, Spizz did it all the time, her son. Yeah. I don’t know what Mr. Clark, if he was in some kind of government or what, they probably retired back there. I don’t know really the true, the first story. Probably you could talk to Mr. Polk he can probably tell you. AC: Okay. BR: When it started and everything. I only learned after I got married. And ‘cause his grandmother was working there. AC: Okay. And you mentioned a lot of woods, or a lot of wood, trees and stuff, growing on the property? BR: Yeah. �AC: Is that where they got the wood for their products, was actually from the wood on the property there? BR: You know what I don’t know but I bet, I guess they did. AC: Okay. BR: Now back that road is some houses built. You came by there, you probably saw where it said Bird Haven or… AC: We may have. TO: Maybe yeah. AC: Yeah we may have, I think, I think… BR: Right in the middle was like a flower, flower arrangement and then it was a sign. AC: Oh okay. BR: I think it said Bird Haven. Well back that road is where it is and I don’t know if they own all that now where those houses or built or what. But I know there’s some houses built down in there. AC: Okay. BR: People from the city, you know, came out and bought the lots and built. AC: Yeah. Okay. So when people, you said people would come and stay at the cottages nearby would they just come and kind of walk around? Were there any, you said they could buy, were there gift shops? How, how did the visitors interact with what was going on in day to day work? BR: Well my father-in-law drove a taxi and brought people out from Mount Jackson. Back then the train run and the bus also. And he would bring people out and they would stay all summer and then the Bryce’s had transportation that they would take them places to see different things in the community and well they had activities all the time. They had dances, they had, my husband set up pins for the bowling alley and they’d have picnics and all kinds of stuff like that. It was, you know, to keep them all entertained cause back then it wasn’t like it is now. You could go, people didn’t have cars like they do now. In fact, when I grew up it was only one car in this area, the rest of us walked to church. But it was good, I mean it was good for us, one family would start and then we’d keep falling in and all of us walked together to church. AC: So it was a tight knit community then? �BR: Yeah, yeah. It’s really changed though. I mean we have a lot of people now that you know, come from the city and different places and build and I used to know everybody that lived around here but now I don’t. AC: Okay. The Bryce cottages, the Bryce Hill cottages, when did those show up, when were they built? BR: Oh gosh. I don’t know, it was before I ever went up there. But now they’re, the cottages are all closed and they have what they call the Bryce Hill, now, they have condos and town houses on it. And but there’s no recreation or nothing any more, they don’t run it anymore it’s just people, it’s just private people, that come up and stay like maybe the weekend or when they have a vacation or whatever, and then of course they have things down at Bryce Resort that, you know, they can do. AC: So did you know if, once those were built, was there a big difference in people coming in and visiting since there were those cottages? BR: Oh yeah, it must be, I believe that at the post office now its 500 boxes and back then it was probably, I think Bayse was 2 people. AC: Oh wow. BR: Now it’s really, it’s really growing up. AC: Yeah. BR: Yeah and we used to have a post office down here. Course we’d have to walk to it to get our mail which was about probably a mile. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah and it was a store and a post office. AC: Yeah? Interesting. I’m trying, you covered so many of them. You’ve been really helpful. So I know you said that the people working there could buy the different products, was that a common thing, did people, for people to buy the things that they’d built? BR: Yeah I think everybody that worked there probably had some, bought some items yeah. Yeah I can’t remember, I don’t think we got a cut on anything. We paid whatever he, whatever the price was. But yeah I’m sure a lot of them had. Probably a lot more than I got. I didn’t buy everything that we made. But I did have that cradle, magazine cradle, and then that table that was a, what did they call that, a, it was real strong. It was a table you know you put in front of your couch. �AC: Okay. BR: Yeah. AC: Yeah. And when you were working was it like an hourly job? BR: Yeah. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah we worked, I guess it was like eight to four or something like that but we only got paid twice a month I think. We didn’t get paid every week. AC: And then, I know you said when you were working there they had switched away from the toys and the puzzles. Do you know if that switch kind of increased production, if people were happy with that switch? BR: I don’t have no idea about that. AC: Okay. BR: ‘Cause it was, when I started it, they weren’t doing any of that. The puzzles or any of that, anything. AC: Okay. BR: Now like I say, Mr. Polk can probably tell you about that. ‘Cause he worked there before I did. AC: Yeah. And you said the men and the women were kind of separate because you were doing different types of jobs. So what types of things would the men be doing versus what you guys were doing? BR: Well like cutting out the things and then one of them would glue them together and I guess like you said I never, I don’t know, but I’d imagine some of them probably had to cut the timber or whatever for them. Or I don’t know if they got, bought the lumber or I, I can’t remember about that. They might have bought the lumber and then the men had to cut out everything and you know that was their job. AC: Okay. And we kind of talked about this some already, but after Bird Haven closed I know you said people had cars and they were driving elsewhere but was it something that people were disappointed about it closing? Did they kind of wish it had stayed open or how did people view that? �BR: Yeah I think they would have liked for it to have stayed open, yeah. But I’m pretty sure Mr. and Mrs. Clark both died and Spizz was by himself and he didn’t want to I guess mess with it. Like he moved to Harrisonburg and he was a lawyer I guess to start out with and went back to being a lawyer. AC: Yeah? Okay. I think that’s most of my questions, can you think of anything else? TO: No. AC: You’ve touched on a lot of it, is there anything else that just, you wanted, anything that you can remember that you want people to know about Bird Haven? BR: No, except it’s a beautiful place and its, it’s a landmark. And I, you know, I hope people will remember it. Cause it was nice, it was nice to work there. And I don’t know, it seems like every things changing to the little person goes out of business. Yeah. I guess I would say probably, I don’t believe it was over probably 20 people or maybe 25 working there when I worked there because it was, I would say, probably 10 women and at least 10 men, maybe more. I don’t know anymore. I would have to sit down and think who all worked there. AC: So it wasn’t a big… BR: It wasn’t a real big... AC: Yeah. BR: Yeah. And I did help to pack, to mail stuff. Everything had a you know, number you know, that’s what we went by to pack. AC: Okay so did they have people that specifically worked in the post office, or was it just that the people who did that also helped with the post office? BR: The ones that owned Bird Haven did the post office too. AC: Okay. But did they have like you guys send out everything, like you were saying, or did they have people that their specific job was in the post office? BR: No just the owners worked in the post office. AC: Okay they just worked there. BR: See now, when I worked at the store in Bayse well it was about five of us, only one person was allowed in the post office to work. So if anybody came in for their mail, we couldn’t get it, it �had to be the person that was, I guess they, I don’t know how they picked them, but anyhow it was one person. AC: Okay. BR: Of course I think it’s changed now. ‘Cause when the woman owned the store she did the post office then, and she worked by herself and I mean it was a lot of work because Bryce had already come in and a lot of people already moved in. And after she retired they had three or four people and they had computers. She didn’t have a computer. AC: Oh wow. BR: She had to at the end of the day figure up everything. AC: Wow. So very different? BR: Yeah. Yeah. Those computers are nice, but then again sometimes they’re not so nice. AC: Yeah? BR: Yeah. AC: And you said since it was kind of smaller, you said maybe ten women and ten men, was that because they wanted to keep it smaller or did a lot of people want to work there or… BR: Well I don’t know about that, I guess we had enough to do what they needed done. All the items they made they had enough to do it. AC: Okay. BR: I really don’t know, but I know it wasn’t a big operation, I mean, I know it wasn’t 50 people, I’d say it wasn’t over 25. I might be wrong though, maybe Leroy Polk can tell you. AC: So when you weren’t working, what sorts of things did you do around here? BR: Well back then wasn’t a lot of cars, everyone didn’t have a car. You just did things that was close. Church things, there was a lot of things going on at church. And community and we had a lot of things you don’t do now. We used to have a, what do you call that when you hide things and you have kids to hunt them, and we’d do that in the woods and around in the community. And they’d have to go all over to find them. That was the church. We had the youth group and every year we’d have a what do you call it a, I can’t think of what it’s called but we’d hide stuff and they had to find it. AC: Like a scavenger hunt, is that… �BR: Yeah. AC: Okay. BR: Yeah and also back then we went on the hay rides, man would come with his tractor and with hay on it and we’d all go and then cook hotdogs and stuff like that but you don’t do nothing like that no more. Now kids all they do is watch TV or that doggone phone stuff. My daughter-in-law is a, or ex-daughter-in-law, is a teacher. She teaches, you’re not supposed to call them retarded but mentally challenged, and she has a rule, and a lot of them are smart, that their phones have to go on the shelf when they come in, they’re not allowed to have their phones while schools going on. But she says you walk the halls and them kids all walk with their heads down they’re doing their phones. AC: Yeah, I believe it. BR: I think that’s getting to be like a addiction, I really do. AC: Yeah. TO: Yeah it gets bad, I can see that. AC: Definitely. Definitely lots of different things. BR: Yeah. You can’t sit down and carry on a conversation with anybody anymore, they’ve got those phones so you might as well forget it. AC: Yeah. Trying to think. BR: So now you’re, are you studying, what are you studying to be? AC: I’m studying history. BR: History. Oh that’s interesting. AC: Yeah. BR: Yeah. AC: So I think things like this are great. BR: Yeah. AC: And they’re important. �BR: Yeah they are. You know what, we have a book club here now and it was my turn this Sunday but it’s been too many things going on I couldn’t get to the library to do what I wanted to do. And I’m going to talk on cemeteries all over the Shenandoah County. AC: Oh cool. BR: And also funeral homes, you’d be surprised how many funeral homes there are. AC: Really? BR: That people don’t know they were funeral homes. They’re just a building. AC: Yeah. BR: And so I was going to talk on that and also how funerals have changed. AC: Yeah? BR: Since I was growing up. And people don’t realize that. AC: Yeah. BR: So I… AC: If you want to talk about that now you can, the ways that they’ve changed you can feel free to talk about that. BR: Well like when I was a teenager when anybody would die down at our church, a lot of people around here didn’t have phones then. When someone would die they had a code that if it was a man they’d toll the bell so many times, everybody in the community could hear it and we would know it was a death. If it was a woman, it was so many times, or a child. And back then well, they didn’t take them to the funeral home. They did to embalm them but then they brought them back to the house and we’d go to the house. And you’d have flower girls, might have ten, fifteen flower girls, and everyone would go to the house. And they’d have a service there and then take them to the church, well they’d have the casket up front, open, during the whole service, and then they’d have everybody to view them at the very end. Which made it a long funeral. I’m glad they quit that. But it’s just how different things are. Now, now at the church down here now, they have them at the back, the casket at the back. And you go in and do that and when it’s time for the funeral they close it up and take it up front and that’s it. And no flower girls or nothing like they used to. AC: Yeah. �BR: Its really different. AC: Yeah. BR: Yeah but a lot of things are better. Yeah. AC: That’s really interesting. I didn’t know, I didn’t know a lot of that. BR: And its, its, now my uncle, is 102 years old. AC: Wow, does he live around here? BR: He lives over at Conicville. AC: Oh ok. BR: And he calls me, he hasn’t called me today so I’m beginning to wonder what’s wrong with him. Sometimes he calls me three times a day. AC: Oh wow. BR: And where his house is, it was a funeral home on that road and people don’t know that. AC: Yeah. BR: Cause now it’s just a house. And its sitting empty. AC: Interesting. BR: So that’s what, I’m interested too to check to see where all the funeral homes were. And over when you go back, when you hit Bayse and go down that hill, you go up the hill and then down the hill, there was one right there. AC: Really? BR: There were what used to be called wetlands but now it’s a car place. That was a funeral home. AC: Interesting. BR: And back then also they took them in buggies. They had you know horses. AC: Yeah? �BR: They would take them in. Yeah. Yeah and you know, it’s something to think about. I wish I’d have wrote down a lot of stuff cause now I’m 85 years old and its nobody I can ask anything anymore cause everybody is gone. Up at our church one day we were cleaning and we found in a closet something wrapped up, it was like a handle, and we were curious what it was. Its been there for years and nobody’s bothered with it. So we got curious and we unwrapped it and all it was was like a handle for an axe but it was real nice, smooth and everything. And now we don’t know what it was for or who wrapped it or put it back there or anything. AC: Wow. BR: Cause all the old folks from our church is gone. AC: Yeah wow. It’s always interesting to wonder why things like that are there. BR: Yeah and we have like a tray and I’m sure that was made at Bird Haven, ‘cause one of the men that belonged to our church worked at Bird Haven and he made a lot of the things in our church when we built a new church in 1954. And he made a lot of things like benches and for rooms and Sunday school rooms and stuff. And it’s a tray with a handle and we can’t figure that out and it’s got little grooves in it like you would set a glass. It’s got maybe eight of those, so we think it was how they served communion. AC: Oh. BR: That the glasses were in those little grooves and they just passed the tray around, but we don’t know what it is. AC: Wow that’s really interesting. BR: We put it out on display all the time when we have homecomings and stuff hoping somebody will know what it is. AC: Yeah. BR: But like I say, all our old members are gone. AC: Yeah, don’t have those people to ask anymore. BR: No, no. AC: And you mentioned, just then, with the man that worked at Bird Haven and he built some stuff for the new church. So did the church and other places in the community, did they go to bird haven for things they needed, do you know? Or was it just a connection, he happened to work there and he went to the church? �BR: Yeah he did it, probably he did it for nothing for the church. AC: Oh okay. BR: But he did a lot of wood work of different things for the church, our church. Yeah. AC: Okay. BR: Now he has one son living yet, the man that did all that, Richard Barb. AC: Oh okay. BR: I don’t know what he could tell you. AC: Yeah. BR: Now he lived as a, when he grew up as a child and everything and going and went to school, he, cross the stream there where we worked, that’s, his parents lived there and it was three children they all lived there. He might be able to tell you something. AC: Okay. He might be on our list, ‘cause we have a list of people and I don’t know who all is on there. So he might be on there but… BR: Might be, Richard Barb is his name. AC: Okay we’ll write him down. BR: And he lives back, Sarah lane. When you go up from here to Bayse. AC: Okay. BR: On the left hand side, its back in the woods where he lives. AC: And you said besides the owners, that was the only other family that lived kind of, that close, like right across the stream? Or were there other people that lived pretty close like that? BR: Well, like I said everybody lived not too far you know, some of them lived over in Mount Clifton or Mount Hermon over, that’s on 263 after you leave Bayse. AC: Yeah. BR: That’s about as far as any of them lived that worked back there. �AC: Okay. Alright. Well I think that’s about everything that we had so unless there’s anything else that you wanted to share? BR: Well I think I’ve said enough. AC: Just making sure, because anything you want to share is, we’d love to hear it. BR: Well I hope you get a good turn out and everything for it. AC: Yeah. BR: And put it on record that people and maybe even my great grandson might be interested when he gets growing. AC: Yeah. And that’s, that’s why we’re doing this, to document it and that’s why we wanted to make sure anything, if there’s anything we didn’t cover, if there’s anything else you wanted to be remembered about Bird Haven and your experiences there. BR: Now like I said that Betty Dillinger, I think she went to work after I quit, I can’t remember, she wasn’t working there when I was working there. It was either before I started or after I quit, I didn’t know she worked there. But they told me that was one, there was three people living yet that worked there. AC: Okay, interesting. BR: And Leroy Polk he lives in Edinburg. AC: Yeah. Okay. BR: Yeah. AC: Awesome, well I think… BR: Would you all like a bottle of water or something? AC: I’m okay… TO: I’m fine, thank you. BR: You sure? � 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 Ashlen Clark Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Betty Richards Location The location of the interview Edinburg, Virginia 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 Betty Richards Oral History Subject The topic of the resource Richards, Betty Bayse (Va) Bird Haven (Va) Description An account of the resource Oral history featuring Betty Richards of Edinburg Virginia recorded by Ashlen Clark 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 Ashlen Clark Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Shenandoah Voices Oral History Collection <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qB7uLiWaX8Q" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/371Ww_0caw8" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></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 22 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 WAV 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 2017-003 Bayse Bird Haven Oral History Shenandoah County Virginia