Tags: childhood
Item #228: Memories: Anne C. Brown
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Anne C. Brown shares memories of growing up and living in Burke, VA, which has been home to several generations of her family. Born in 1921, she...
Item #225: Oliver Farm, Annandale, Virginia
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On Christmas Eve 1931, Robert Stringfellow Oliver, his wife Charlene Byrd Oliver, seven children and 24 cattle moved from Shirlington to this farm...
Item #217: Essay: The CCC Road
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Bill Sheads writes about the road built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s to open access to a large forested tract bounded by Old...
Item #215: Oral History, Part 2: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson (1921 - 2008)
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In Part 2 of two interview sessions, Bill and Elsie (Sheads) Sisson, brother and sister, reminisce about their family, which came to the Braddock...
Item #183: Memories: Joanne Mellender Hollis
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Joanne Mellender Hollis first moved to Fairfax as a child in 1932. She remembers activities of her childhood and life during World War II, when...
Item #181: Oak Hill Memories: Bernice Watt Montgomery
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Bernice Watt Montgomery lived the first ten years of her life at Oak Hill when it was a 50-acre working farm. Her grandfather had purchased the...
Item #180: Oak Hill Memories: Mary Grace Watt Pulley
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Mary Grace Watt Pulley lived the first seventeen years of her life at Oak Hill when it was a 50-acre working farm. Her grandfather had purchased the...
Item #177: Oral History: Rosemarie Schelling
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Rosemarie Schelling and her family moved to the Braddock District when her husband was stationed at the Pentagon during the 1960s. Their five children...
Item #176: Oral History: James Roland
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James Roland was born in northern Virginia. His parents had moved to the area from Tennessee after World War II because of the better job market. ...