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Artsline Artsline - Celebrate Memorial Day with History, Heroes, and Story! Portrait of Union spy, Elizabeth Van Lew. Richmond Storyhouse offers a historical walking tour of her Churchill neighborhood. (Photo: The Valentine) Artsline: Virtual Edition || May 17, 2021 “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”  ~Joseph Campbell As we celebrate Memorial Day, what a great time to reflect on the heroes in our communities and the ways we honor them. This week and weekend you’ll find celebrations and commemorations of women spies, brave soldiers, and...

SUMMARY George Wythe was a member of the House of Burgesses (1754–1755, 1758, 1761–1766) and the Conventions of 1776, 1787, 1788, a member of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolution (1775–1783), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1777–1778), and judge of the High Court of Chancery (1778–1806). His signature is first among Virginians on the Declaration of Independence. Born in Elizabeth City County, Wythe was educated by his mother and read the law under the guidance of an uncle, eventually building a lucrative practice in Williamsburg, where he mentored a youn...

Virginia came as close as any American colony in duplicating the system of representation of the mother country. England’s forty counties each elected two “knights of the shire” as representatives to the House of Commons; in Virginia, two burgesses represented each county in the House of Burgesses. In England, towns or boroughs could petition the Crown to be allowed to send a single representative to Parliament; in Virginia communities could do the same, but because there were so few towns in the Old Dominion, only Jamestown (1684), Williamsburg (1723), and Norfolk (1738) received that...

The Week in W.Va. History West Virginia Encyclopedia CHARLESTON – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. April 25, 1863: About 1,500 Confederate soldiers under Gen. William ‘‘Grumble’’ Jones advanced through Greenland Gap, a deep pass through New Creek Mountain in Grant County. The Confederates encountered 87 Union soldiers who held off several assaults before finally surrendering. April 25, 1923: Union leader Arnold Ray Miller was born at Leewood on Cabin Creek in Kan...

1 of 8 One hundred seventy-four men died on April 28, 1914 during an explosion at the Eccles No. 5 Mine in Raleigh County. Nine additional miners died of injuries and afterdamp while working in the No. 6 Mine during the explosion. Watt Powell Park opened in Charleston on April 28, 1948. The personal library of Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, was among the sites destroyed by Confederate forces in Fairmont on April 29, 1863. WVU Sports Hall of Fame member Fielding Harris “Hurry-Up” Yost was born April 30, 1871 in Mari...