J. E. B. Stuart and Patrick County Virginia History

NEW BOOK FOR 2010 !

Notes From The Free State Of Patrick Revised For 2010

$14.99

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This revised edition originally published in 2008 contains articles,

speeches, blogs, and stories in 241 pages with chapters on

J. E. B. Stuart’s great-grandfathers who fought in the

American Revolution, Reynolds Homestead, Virginia Tech

“Hokie” History, two chapters on Stoneman’s 1865 Raid,

United States History, North Carolina History, Virginia History,

Patrick County People and History, African-Americans in the

Civil War, the World War Two Plane Crash on Bull Mountain

in 1944, the men who lost their lives from Patrick County in

Vietnam, J. E. B. Stuart and Patrick County and Thomas Jefferson:

First American Architect. The latter is Perry’s first paper written

for eleventh grade English at Patrick County High School in 1978.

Found by Perry’s mother in 2009, he revised it for this book.

Perry includes ideas about using history and tourism to promote

Patrick County along with a chapter on the Patrick County Oral

History Project.

This book begins with an essay titled “Cobblestones on Crawford

Avenue” that deals with Perry’s love of history that stems from

many people including his maternal grandparents who lived in

Augusta, Georgia, near Crawford Avenue. The book ends with a

talk given at the Patrick County Courthouse in 2006 about the

men and women, who called The Free State of Patrick “Home”

during the War Between the States. This book is dedicated to Perry's

friends and second set of parents Theodore C. and Bertie Hill Guynn.

Perry spent many years as a youth staying with the Guynns on their

farm along the Ararat River while his parents worked. Walking and

working the farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains exposed

Perry to many stories and history that still influence his writings.

Included in the book is a story titled "Everything I Know I Learned

From Theodore Guynn," given as a talk at Guynn's eightieth birthday

party in 2007.

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This book sells for $14.99 and is available from Perry’s website

This is the first of Perry’s books that is available through all

book distributors such as Ingram and Create Space.

All of Thomas D. "Tom" Perry's books are available at www.amazon.com