The Virginia Writers Project announces the release of its latest journal.
The journal contains creative writing, art and regional history. The Summer issue features a revisit to Carroll County, Hillsville, courthouse massacre by Wythe historian Bill Veselik, and the story of recently parted Floyd county master wood craftsman Glendon Boyd. Boyd carved a complex tableau of the Hillsville courtroom scene.
Also in this journal, the story of Amherst attorney and judge Aubrey E. Strode best known for his authoring the Virginia eugenics and marriage segregation laws. He represented the state in the US Supreme Court case that legalized sterilization; Rockingham county native on attending school in segregated Lexington; minstrel entertainment and the origins of the Jim Crow laws; the adventures of Richmond editor Charles Botts; the Civilian Conservation Corp in Damascus, Washington county; WWI camp A. A. Humphries (Ft. Belvoir); growing up on the John Randolph plantation in Charlotte county; the WCTU in Southampton; boy scouts pulling potatoes on the eastern shore in World War I; and the Virginia Supreme Court case Alvin Harris vs Commonwealth of Virginia.
The journal publishes 10-12 history pieces in each edition, presently three a year. Information regarding the Project is found at https://virginiawritersproject.com. It is a membership organization, but dues are voluntary, it is nonprofit, and it is totally voluntary. Interested persons are invited to contact the managing editor, [email protected]. The winter edition, including history, poetry and short prose will focus on high school writers.
