NEW BOOK FOR 2010 !
Images of Patrick County: Postcards
$9.99
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Images of Patrick County: Postcards is Tom Perry’s fourth images book focusing on photos from his
collection of over 10,000 images soon to be housed at the Special Collections Department of the Carol M.
Newman Library at Virginia Tech, Perry’s alma mater in Blacksburg, Virginia. This book of 71 pages
concentrates on the many postcards from the past with a connection to Patrick County including chapters
on the Mountain Top area including the Circle M Zoo, Dan River Queen, and Cochram’s Mill in the Vesta
and Meadows of Dan areas. A chapter includes the area East of Stuart that concentrates of Patrick Springs and
Critz including the Reynolds Homestead and many orchards that led to the Peach Festival. A chapter on
Woolwine concentrates on the covered bridges of Patrick County that are 2 of the surviving nine in Virginia.
A chapter on Stuart, Virginia, includes images from the county seat of The Free State Of Patrick. A chapter on
Fairy Stone Park has images from the county’s only state park. A chapter from the images of the Blue Ridge
Parkway that makes up the northern border of the county. Last, there is a chapter of postcards that claim they
are Patrick County, but they are not PC. The book begins with a summary of the history of postcards in America.
The book retails for $9.99 and is available throughout the region and in Patrick County. This is the
first of Perry’s images books that is available though major book distributors such as Ingram.
This book sells for $9.99 and is available from Perry’s website
All of Thomas D. "Tom" Perry's books are available at www.amazon.com
Copyright 2009 Thomas D. Perry. No material used without permission.
See the Table of Contents and Index Here