Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the first day of Virginia’s state-wide prohibition. To see more about the build-up to the referendum that dried up…
Claire RadcliffeNovember 1, 2016
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in The Delimiter, the Library’s in-house on-line newsletter. It has been shortened and edited slightly. This week Out of the Box would like…
Laura Drake DavisJuly 24, 2013
On 29 August, the movie Lawless, starring Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, and Jessica Chastain, opens around the country. Based on the bestselling novel The Wettest County in…
Greg CrawfordAugust 29, 2012
"Jugglery, slight of hand , comic concerts, and songs” brought the congregation of Centenary Methodist Church and members of the Sons of Temperance, Pendleton Division…
Bari HelmsAugust 22, 2012
Recently, the Library of Virginia received generous gifts of historical Virginia newspapers from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and Christopher Newport University.The Tennessee State Library and…
Kelley EwingAugust 17, 2012
