by Sears Homes | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized |
In that process of rummaging through my notes on Penniman, I was reminded that I’d been looking for photos taken by Drewry Jones of Williamsburg. Despite lots of poking around, I never have been able to locate those photos (originals or reproductions), or anyone...
by Sears Homes | Oct 5, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In Fall 2002, I was broke, depressed, lonely and very worried about the future. Months earlier, my beloved mother had died unexpectedly and my marriage of 24 years had ended in divorce. Those were tough times. I had one thing going for me: My newly published book, The...
by Sears Homes | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
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...
by Sears Homes | Feb 6, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Thursday night, David Spriggs and I gave our first talk on Penniman, Virginia’s Own Ghost Town. While preparing our powerpoint presentation, I learned two things I had not known before: 1) Sometime in 1917 or 1918, a German sub made its way to the York River,...
by Sears Homes | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Sometime in the 1930s, a man named Frank Workman not only built a Sears Strathmore, but he had the wisdom to document part of the process through photographs. About 80 years later, a kind soul named Ms. Dickinson had the wisdom to save those photos and put them on...
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