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Dale M Brumfield
The death penalty was Virginia's longest continuing tradition, dating back to 1608 when Capt. George Kendall was shot for treason. Since then, Virginia has executed 1,390 people, more than any…
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The March 27, 1980 opening of Burkewood Fun Park’s 30th season disintegrates from happy anticipation into an inexplicable morass of sabotaged rides, near-drownings, nitwit managerial decisions, tainted food and freak…
In 1908, at the height of Jim Crow, Virginia switched from public hanging at local gallows to the electric chair in the basement of the State Penitentiary in Richmond. These…
A disgraced American filmmaker goes to the Ethiopian desert with a small crew to make a documentary of a vanishing society, but because of bad weather, equipment failure, and a…
Dale M. Brumfield
The nation’s capital and the state of Virginia were a hotbed of political and social turmoil that marked the 1960s and 1970s. The area saw anti-Vietnam War protests, civil rights…
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Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capitol and White House architect…
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Discover the history and tradition of alternative print media in Richmond, Virginia.
During the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s, even the sleepy southern town of Richmond was not immune to the emergence of radical counterculturalism. A change in the traditional…
