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PART 1: Richard Dawkins reads excerpts from The God Delusion and answers questions at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. This Q&A features many questions from Jerry Falwell's Liberty "University" students.
This is the elevator at the Allied Arts Building in Lynchburg. I already photographed this elevator but today the Lynchburg News & Advance did a photoshoot of me here because I am going to be featured in the News & Advance Newspaper.
this is the elevator at the Allied Arts Building in Lynchburg. I know it is not a true high speed but it is fast for this area :) One of the tallest buildings in the area as well.. at 17 floors. the building itself is beautiful inside and out. VERY art Deco. here is a pic of the building. flickr.com
rawarrior
@marcia_h Yes, I saw that video the other day, but had not finished watching. Thx! He's also from one of my FAVE towns, Lynchburg #VA...
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dan710
U.Va. beats BC, faces Duke next in ACC tournament: Lynchburg News and Advance (blog)
UVa hasn't beaten Duke in th... http://bit.ly/atoanF
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GFJI
RT @GrowingPower: 3rd visit to Lynchburg, VA over the w/e on March 5-6th. Lynchburg Grows is 1 of GP's Regional... http://bit.ly/d2gwrj
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GrowingPower
Third visit to Lynchburg, VA over the weekend on March 5-6th. Lynchburg Grows is one of Growing Power's Regional... http://bit.ly/d2gwrj
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Heisteknikk
I favorited a YouTube video -- US elevator Traction @ Allied Arts Building Lynchburg VA http://youtu.be/uK89ZXWmU4k?a
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Jones_Sky
Will be departing for Lynchburg,Va for my audition in approximately 3hrs!!! Nerves on edge! Think I'll watch a movie to calm them down.
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royal_221
Va. Senate cuts anti-bias language from bill to help lure defense firm http://bit.ly/dxlkeG
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KevinDrums
Lynchburg VA. Cocktail kit tonight. The Rodney Atkins acoustic extravaganza with Phil Vassar.
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Franklin C. Haizlip, a Confederate Soldier from the Virginia 57th Infantry (Henry County) died in 1862 during the American Civil War and is buried in the Confederate section of Lynchburg City Cemetary. The marker is under a hedge row. Franklin is my great-great-great-great paternal grandfather. Below (left) is his marker.
Personally having moved with my husband to Lynchburg in 1974 from New York, my family was unaware of this fact until my aunt from Rockingham County, North Carolina discovered it while researching our family tree in the 1990's. Below (right) is the respectfull setting at city cemetary.
During the Civil War there was a Prisoner of War camp on the site of E.C. Glass High School on Memorial Avenue. In front of the High School there is a monument honoring and listing the names of the 42 (or was it 43) soldiers from Lynchburg that died during World War I.
There isnt a marker at E.C. Glass High School to honor the 6 union solders buried on the grounds. Now of course E.C. Glass was built in 1952, when Lynchburg was very much in the throngs segregation - the Jim Crow era. The fact that they are buried under the parking lot where vehicles drive over them may be reflective of local attitudes at that time of continued southern defiance and resistance. As a child, I remember traveling through Virginia on my way to visit family in North Carolina and seeing segregated entrances in businesses; one for "colored" and one for "whites only."
Data on Union Soldiers who died as Prisoners of War in Lynchburg, 1861-1865 buried under the auditorium parking lot at E.C. Glass High School:
- Witham, Pvt. Charles W., 10th Maine Infantry, Company G Died July 24, 1862 at the Fairgrounds [POW Camp]
- Boyd, Pvt. William C., 27th Indiana Infantry, Company E Died August 6, 1862 of typhoid at the Fairgrounds [POW Camp]
- Kinerson, Pvt. Albert, 1st Vermont Cavalry, Company D Died: August 15, 1862 [Probably at the Fairgrounds]
- Berry, Pvt. James, 55th Ohio Infantry, Company K Died: November 15, 1862 [Probably at the Fairgrounds]
- Wood, Pvt. Samuel D., 26th Michigan Infantry Died of starvation sometime after May 12, 1864 when he was taken prisoner at Spotsylvania Court House
- Robinson, Corpl. John. 1st Maryland Infantry, Company D Died sometime after May 8, 1864, shot by a Confederate guard
In 2010, we as a community having progressed - it is time to place a memorial marker near the auditorium on the Langhorne Road side at E.C. Glass to honor these soldiers. Surely such a memorial would be paid for by private funds.
Once again, it is time to do the right thing. Americans have a history of treating with respect and dignity the military dead of opposing military forces.
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Update: February 27, 2010
The Taylor-Wilson Camp (website) descendants of Union soldiers is in the process of raising funds to place a statuary monument on the site of the Lynchburg Prisoner of War camp, current day E.G. Glass High School
This blog posting “Soldiers buried under High School parking lot“ began as a result of my husbands talk during the Lynchburg City Council public hearing on February 23 relating to the relocation of the Heritage Elementary voter polling place location.
At the end of his comments on February 23, Phil encouraged the city to look to the future when holding public hearings. For example, the upcoming Annual City Budget Hearing. As such, Phil suggested holding it at Heritage High School’s auditorium in order to allow adequate space in case hundreds of people show up. All of which is likely, in light of the fact that drastic budget cuts will probably take place effective for the next City budget beginning July 1, 2010
After the February 23 hearing, my immediate family discussed his (ie Phil's) reason for NOT suggesting E.C. Glass High School as a place for a public hearing.
Though he did not state it during his public comments on February 23, Phil doesn't like the idea of driving and or parking atop anyone's grave especially an American soldier(s) no matter Union or Confederate. Phil as the son of a diabled US World War II Navy submarine veteran and grandson son of a US World War I Navy submarine veteran, believes ALL military personnel deserve proper burial, public acknowledgement and respect.
In September 2000, the late Jack Mills (former President of the VA Southern Christian Leadership Council) appeared before Lynchburg city council to raise the matter of racially offensive artwork in Lynchburg City Court Houses. Mills later identified the City Employee he was speaking on behalf of to Patrick Lynch a reporter at the time for the Lynchburg News & Advance.
As for the artwork:
(1) One is of a mural "Coming down Lynchburg" depicting a slave walking beside of oxen - a picture of historic value but not one belonging in a building housing a court (ie the Monument Terrace Building on Church Street accross from City Hall).
(2) The other was a series of brass reliefs (depicting slaves with monkeylike features) on a wall inside the main entrance to the Lynchburg City Circuit Court across from the Lynchburg Police Department.
Georgia Barksdale the wife of former City Councilman Ed Barksdale subsequently organized an effort which lead to the removal of the brass relief as well as (placement of) American and Virginia State Flags being encased and draped over the mural. Both cost taxpayers nothing ($0 , zip, nada) --- the brass figures where subsequently popped of the wall by a city maintenance worker and then City Council Member Bob Garber donated a $1,500 oak display case containing the flags. The American and State flags having flown over the state capital were donated by State Senator Steve Newman.
In 2010, the time approaches for the court to move out of the Monument Terrace building with the construction of a new court building. Hopefully the flags over the mural will then be removed and given to the Lynchburg City Museum.
<<< Picture to the left appeared in the Piedmont Journal on October 24, 2002. That was shortly before the brass images were removed by the City of Lynchburg.
