Levittown, Norfolk Virginia

“Rose, do you know what this thing is?” That’s what my neighbor asked me Friday night, as we were standing in the front yard, enjoying the pleasant evening. In the back of his truck, he showed me a 2×6 with a metal ring recessed into a matching...

Village For Sale. Cheap.

Incredible researcher and smart cookie Mark Hardin has made another remarkable discovery. He found an advertisement (dated October 1922) in the Richmond Times Dispatch, offering the Village of Penniman for sale. By this time, most of the contents of the WW1 munitions...

Number Nine

In 2008, Ersela Jordan contacted me and told me that she’d discovered a surfeit of Sears Homes in Beckley, WV. Turned out, she was right!  About the same time, another Beckley resident named Sandi Daniels got in on the fun and said that she’d found a Sears...