Is That You, Dr. Cottrell?

by | Feb 11, 2018 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

Last month, Steven Beauter was kind enough to share an incredible vintage photo album with me, which featured more than a dozen pictures from 1918-era Penniman, Virginia, a “ghost city” six miles from Williamsburg. There are several unidentified folks...

Penniman Remnants in Williamsburg

by | Nov 27, 2013 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

“Penniman was not erased, it was dispersed” (R. Wythe Davis). While organizing my 2,000+ pages of research notes on Penniman, I found the above quote. It was in amongst some materials shared with me by author and historian Will Molineux. It offers quite an...