by Sears Homes | Apr 8, 2016 | Uncategorized |
That might be the question on my friends’ lips, as I’ve well nigh disappeared from polite society for the last several weeks. I didn’t realize how long I’d been “under the radar” until last night, when I glanced at an entry in my...
by Sears Homes | Mar 13, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Larchmont is a prestigious neighborhood in Norfolk, filled with stately Colonial Revivals, Cape Cods, Dutch Colonials and Neo-Tudors from the 1920s and 30s. As far as older neighborhoods go, Larchmont is one of Hampton Roads’ most expensive communities, and...
by Sears Homes | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized |
While reading the Newport News Daily Press, I stumbled upon a little item in the 1923 paper that connected a lot of dots. In the article (from the Associated Press), Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels explained that during The Great War, the Navy had stationed...
by Sears Homes | Feb 15, 2016 | Uncategorized |
According to newspaper accounts, Ethel didn’t die easy. For 10 days in November 1918, she lingered in a Richmond hospital before succumbing to her injuries, caused by two bullet wounds through her left lung. In the last days of her life, between labored breaths...
by Sears Homes | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Update! Mystery solved! Click here to read the latest. “Mr. W. L. Jones, chairman of the Williamsburg school board, said that he…purchased the bricks…[from the demolished Penniman smokestack] to build a public school building [in Pottstown] for the...
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