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The Appomattox Gallery

By editor on February 27, 2008

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Appomattox, VA 24522
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RSS Appomattox News

  • Obama Announces White House Rural Tour 3 July 2009
    President Obama has announced the launch of his Administration’s Rural Tour. This summer, over the course of the next few weeks and months, top Administration officials, including Cabinet Secretaries, will fan out across the nation to hold a series of discussions on how communities, states, and the federal government can work together to help strengthen ru […]
  • Virginia to Recieve Recovery Act Funds for Renewable Energy Programs 2 July 2009
    DOE announced in late June its award of more than $454 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in 18 states. Under DOE's State Energy Program, states have proposed plans to prioritize energy savings, create or retain jobs, increase the use of renewable energy, and reduce greenh […]
  • McDonnell Statement on Teacher Performance Pay 2 July 2009
    United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appeared at the National Education Association's annual convention today to promote the Obama Administration's support of performance pay for teachers. As reported by The Los Angeles Times, Duncan told the audience, "It's not enough to focus only on issues like job security, tenure, compens […]
  • Virginia is for Lovers Receives Forbes’ Recognition 2 July 2009
    Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced today that Virginia is for Lovers, the official state tourism slogan, has been named one of the top ten tourism marketing campaigns of all time by Forbes.com. This honor comes as the state is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Virginia is for Lovers campaign, and affirms the Commonwealth's commitment to promoting […]
  • AFSCME Makes $500,000 Donation to Deeds 2 July 2009
    Creigh Deeds has received a $500,000 donation from the powerful national union AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. This donation is the largest single donation to the Deeds campaign to date. The donation comes on the heels of Deeds receiving $100,000 from the SEIU, a national union supporting the elimination of Virginia […]
  • Virginia Gas Station Owner Settles Underground Storage Tank Violations 1 July 2009
    Petro Marketing and Brokerage Company, Inc. (Petro) and Patricia and John Wynn have settled alleged violations of underground storage tank (UST) regulations at three gas stations in Virginia, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
  • McDonnell Calls for Series of 10 Statewide Gubernatorial Debates 1 July 2009
    Bob McDonnell, Republican gubernatorial nominee and former Attorney General of Virginia, today proposed a formal series of ten gubernatorial debates, taking place statewide, between himself and Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds.
  • Creigh Deeds Endorsed by Union that Seeks to Overturn Virginia’s Right to Work Law 30 June 2009
    Democratic gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds today proudly accepted the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU supports overturning Virginia's Right to Work law, a crucial part of Virginia's pro-jobs economic environment. In the SEIU's candidate survey the union asked:
  • Library News 30 June 2009
    ...The Jamerson Library's next event will be on Thursday, July 02, "I Can Be A Star Too!" a one-hour drama camp. The first camp will be 1:00pm for patrons that are pre-K through 5 years of age. The second camp will be at 3:00pm for patrons 6 through 9 years of age. You must be pre-registered to attend either camp. You can stop by the Jamerson […]
  • Hydropower Expansion Funding Offered: Will Virginia Apply for Help? 30 June 2009
    U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced up to $32 million in Recovery Act funding to modernize the existing hydropower infrastructure in the U.S., increase efficiency, and reduce environmental impact. Today’s announcement is designed to support the deployment of turbines and control technologies to increase power generation and envir […]

RSS Appomattox History

  • Union Soldiers to be Honored 17 June 2009
    [ 20 June 2009; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] On Saturday, June 20, at 11 a.m. the Taylor-Wilson Camp #10 and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will dedicate a monument in honor of the young private who won the Congressional Medal for valor and to the memory of the 12 men who died on ground which would become the Lynchburg College campus.
  • Appomattox Court House National Historical Park Offers Summer Day Camps for Kids 8 June 2009
    [ 11 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 14 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 18 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 21 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 25 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 28 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 8 August 2009; 7:00 pm; 1 July 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Appomattox Court House National Historical Park will host its 13th annual Civil War summer day camps. This year there are two different themes offered. First, the tradition […]
  • CVCC Announces the Publication of R. Matthew Poteat’s Book, Henry Toole Clark 2 June 2009
    R. Matthew Poteat, an assistant professor of history at Central Virginia Community College, has written the first in-depth biography of Henry Toole Clark, a governor of North Carolina during the Civil War.
  • Museum Announces Winners of 2008 Book Awards 5 May 2009
    The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that Joseph T. Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, published by Free Press, and Charles W. Mitchell's Maryland Voices of the Civil War, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, are the recipients of its 39th annual Book Awards competition.
  • National Park Service Announces Recovery Act Projects 30 April 2009
    The National Park Service (NPS) has announced nearly 800 projects totaling $750 million that can be completed across the country with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This major effort includes projects in the agency’s Northeast Region, which includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Penns […]
  • Today in History: 24 April 1800 24 April 2009
    Today in 1800, the Library of Congress was born when President John Adams approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for the use of congress." According to the Library of Congress:
  • Today in History: 23 April 1887 23 April 2009
    Today in 1887, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern out of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, published a piece that denied a rumor that General Lee and his family were impoverished after the Civil War ended. The short article, reprinted below, offers a quote by then-Governor of Virginia, Fitzhugh Lee.
  • Today in History: 22 April 2009 22 April 2009
    On this day in 1966, emergency crew workers found a "pretty remarkable catch" in the Appomattox River. On the front page of The Progress-Index out of Petersburg, a photograph showed these emergency workers poking, rather than fishing, at an object in the river. According to the headline, the "fish" had large shining eyes and did not resem […]
  • Today in History: 21 April 1896 21 April 2009
    When I'm searching for articles about Appomattox, I often give up and just relax with a newspaper's front page. Such is the situation with this day in 1896 with The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But, to stay within this topic's reach, the front page of this newspaper did carry information about Virginia and about Appo […]
  • GCCR Helps Build VHS Under-Represented Gay Collections 20 April 2009
    The Virginia Historical Society (VHS), with financial assistance from the Gay Community Center of Richmond (GCCR), recently completed processing materials from three archival collections related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) topics, such as activism, institutional and local history, civic issues, and social life and customs of the gay com […]

RSS Appomattox Genealogy

  • James H. and Virginia E. Day 20 April 2009
    James H. and Virginia E. Day tombstone.
  • Lhee King Dies in Rock Slide 17 April 2009
    5 April 1953 - Appomattox, VA - "Lhee King, 29, was crushed to death by a 109-ton rock slide while working in a quarry here yesterday.
  • James Wellington Cawthorne Obituary 16 April 2009
    9 April 1953 - "James Wellington Cawthorne, first mayor of Appomattox and town manager for 20 years, died yesterday after a three-week illness.
  • John Robert Davis Obituary 15 April 2009
    15 August 1951 - Chatham - "The funeral of James Robert Davis, 72-year-old resident of Gretna, will be conducted Thursday from the graveside in the family cemetery at Appomattox.
  • Albert L. Meeks Obituary 14 April 2009
    19 November 1878 - "Albert L. Meeks, an esteemed citizen of Halifax and native of Appomattox, died at Halifax Courthouse last Wednesday, aged 56 years."
  • Bad Football Night for Ray Wingfield 13 April 2009
    20 October 1951 - Appomattox, VA - Appomattox high school's Ray Wingfield muffed his big moment at football glory here Friday night.
  • Four Men Killed in Train/Auto Accident 13 April 2009
    21 March 1950 - "Pamplin - Four men were killed near here Monday afternoon when an eastbound train crashed into a sedan at a doublerack grade crossing.
  • John Berkley Plunkett Obituary 10 April 2009
    2 June 1953 - "John Berkley Plunkett, 72, of Sebring, Fla., died this morning at 9:35 o'clock in the Petersburg General Hospital after a brief illness.
  • Lottie Mae Stone Foreman Obituary 9 April 2009
    2 July 1953 - "Mrs. Lottie Mae Foreman, 81, of Cedar Grove, died at her home yesterday after a long illness.
  • Walter Sam Farrar Obituary 8 April 2009
    1 June 1953 - "Walter Sam Farrar, of 224 S. Jefferson St., died in Roanoke Sunday morning of a heart attack while visiting relatives.

2 responses to “The Appomattox Gallery”

  1. Beginning to See the Light - Petr Liska
    Beginning to See the Light - Petr Liska
    13 August 2008 at 5:16 am | | Reply

    [...] Liska’s paintings can be viewed downtown at the Appomattox Gallery. Later this year, Petr and Magda plan to open a shop on Oakley Avenue that will include a showroom [...]

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