Tag Archives: Love of History

Part Three – Talk Given by Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle

Posted on June 27, 2013 by VA History Exchange

In this segment of our Video Interview, Bobby Waid lists off all the families who were members of St. Mark’s church…and tells of how everyone was expected to do something useful.  He was expected to become a member of the … Continue reading →

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Part two – Talk Given by Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle

Posted on June 20, 2013 by VA History Exchange

In Part two of our video interview series with Bobby Waid, Mayor of Fincastle, Bobby starts telling about the church organist, Viola Painter, and of her custom of leaving the church at the end on one hour (often before the final … Continue reading →

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For the Love of Virginia – Part 6 (Conclusion)

Posted on May 30, 2013 by VA History Exchange

I understand how love of family and of home motivated certain people to do loving things.  My Uncle Jim drove (from Marblehead, Massachusetts to Schenectady) nearly every weekend for about eighteen months, to help our family cope with my mother’s … Continue reading →

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For the Love of Virginia – Part 5

Posted on May 24, 2013 by VA History Exchange

As teenagers, Dad and his older brother Jim spent many summers at the lake helping their uncle repair docks, riprap shores (a technique of protecting shores from erosion by constructing rock walls at the water’s edge), and generally absorbing the … Continue reading →

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For the Love of Virginia – Part 4

Posted on May 20, 2013 by VA History Exchange

After graduating from V.P.I. in 1940, my dad took a job with the General Electric Company and moved in with his uncle (also a G.E. engineer) in Schenectady, New York.  Dad never did move back to Virginia (but lived, instead, … Continue reading →

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