| 163 | Author: | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Shehens` Houn` Dogs | | | Published: | 1999 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | EDWARD Berenson, the Washington correspondent for the New
York News, descended from the sleeping-car at Hardin,
Kentucky, and inquired for the stage to Ballington's Gap. But there
was, it appeared, no stage. Neither was a conveyance to be hired.
The community looked at Berenson and went by on the other side.
He had, indeed, as he recollected, with a too confiding candor,
registered himself from Washington, and there were reasons in
plenty why strangers should not be taken over to Ballington's Gap
promiscuously, so to speak, by the neighbors at Hardin. Berenson
had come down from Washington with a purpose, however, and he
was not to be frustrated. He wished to inquire — politely — why, for
four generations, the Shehens and the Babbs had been killing each
other. He meant to put the question calmly and in the interest of
scientific journalism, but he was quite determined to have it
answered. To this end he bought a lank mare for seventy-five
dollars — "an th' fixin's thrown in, sah" — and set out upon a red
road, bound for the Arcadian distance. | | Similar Items: | Find |
175 | Author: | Pyle, Howard | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the
buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main | | | Published: | 1999 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola—the Santo Domingo
of our day—and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles
in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to
that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle. It is not more than twenty miles in length
by perhaps seven or eight in breadth; it is only a little spot of land, and as you look at it
upon the map a pin's head would almost cover it; yet from that spot, as from a center of
inflammation, a burning fire of human wickedness and ruthlessness and lust overran the world,
and spread terror and death throughout the Spanish
West Indies, from St. Augustine to the island of Trinidad, and from Panama to the coasts of
Peru. | | Similar Items: | Find |
177 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1999) January 29, 1999 | | | Published: | 1999 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open
Session, at 8:25 a.m., on Friday, January 29, in the East Oval Room
of the Rotunda with the following persons present:John P. Ackerly,
III, Rector, Charles M. Caravati, Jr., Champ Clark, William G. Crutchfield,
Jr., William H. Goodwin, Jr., T. Keister Greer, Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn
Holland, Timothy B. Robertson, Terence P. Ross, Albert H. Small,
Ms. Elizabeth A. Twohy, Henry L. Valentine, II, Walter F. Walker,
Benjamin P.A. Warthen, James C. Wheat, III, Joseph E. Wolfe, and
J. Michael Allen. Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr., Alexander G. Gilliam,
Jr., Richard C. Kast, Peter W. Low, Robert W. Cantrell, Ms. Colette
Capone, Robert D. Sweeney, William W. Harmon, Ms. Polley Ann McClure,
Gene D. Block, L. Jay Lemons, Terry Holland and Ms. Jeanne Flippo
Bailes were also present. | | Similar Items: | Find |
178 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1999) March 26, 1999 | | | Published: | 1999 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open
Session, at 8:40 a.m., on Friday, March 26, in the East Oval Room
of the Rotunda with the following persons present: John P. Ackerly,
III, Rector, Charles M. Caravati, Jr., Champ Clark, William G.
Crutchfield, Jr., William H. Goodwin, Jr., T. Keister Greer, Mrs.
Elsie Goodwyn Holland, Terence P. Ross, Albert H. Small, Ms. Elizabeth
A. Twohy, Henry L. Valentine, II, Walter F. Walker, Benjamin P.A.
Warthen, Joseph E. Wolfe, and J. Michael Allen. John T. Casteen,
III, Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr., Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul
J. Forch, Peter W. Low, Robert W. Cantrell, Ms. Colette Capone,
Robert D. Sweeney, Ernest H. Ern, William W. Harmon, Ms. Polley
Ann McClure, Gene D. Block, L. Jay Lemons, and Ms. Jeanne Flippo
Bailes were also present. | | Similar Items: | Find |
179 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1999) May 14, 1999 | | | Published: | 1999 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open
Session, at 8:30 a.m., on Friday, May 14, 1999, in the East Oval
Room of the Rotunda with the following persons present: John P.
Ackerly, III, Rector, Charles M. Caravati, Jr., Champ Clark, William
G. Crutchfield, Jr., William H. Goodwin, Jr., T. Keister Greer,
Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn Holland, Timothy B. Robertson, Terence P. Ross,
Albert H. Small, Ms. Elizabeth A. Twohy, Henry L. Valentine, II,
Walter F. Walker, Benjamin P.A. Warthen, James C. Wheat, III, Joseph
E. Wolfe, and Robert G. Schoenvogel. John T. Casteen, III, Leonard
W. Sandridge, Jr., Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul J. Forch, Peter
W. Low, Robert W. Cantrell, Ms. Colette Capone, Robert D. Sweeney,
Ernest H. Ern, William W. Harmon, Gene D. Block, Terry Holland,
L. Jay Lemons, and Ms. Jeanne Flippo Bailes were also present. | | Similar Items: | Find |
180 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1999) October 15, 1999 | | | Published: | 1999 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-ModEngl | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open
Session, from 8:30 to 9:10 a.m., in the East Oval Room of the Rotunda;
John P. Ackerly, III, Rector, presided. Charles M. Caravati, Jr.,
M.D., Champ Clark, William G. Crutchfield, Jr., Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn
Holland, Timothy B. Robertson, Albert H. Small, Ms. Elizabeth A.
Twohy, Henry L. Valentine, II, Walter F. Walker, Benjamin P.A. Warthen,
James C. Wheat, III, Joseph E. Wolfe, and Robert G. Schoenvogel
were present. Also present were John T. Casteen, III, Leonard W.
Sandridge, Jr., Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul J. Forch, Robert
W. Cantrell, M.D., Peter W. Low, Robert D. Sweeney, Ernest H. Ern,
William W. Harmon, Gene D. Block, Robert D. Reynolds, M.D., Terry
Holland, L. Jay Lemons, and Ms. Jeanne Flippo Bailes. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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