Though she is a native Virginian, Emilee Hines finds she is always learning new and interesting things about the history of her home state. She is a graduate of Lynchburg College and has a master's degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught in Virginia and Kenya. She enjoys writing, traveling, and exploring western North Carolina in her Mustang. Click here for more about Emilee!

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Editorial Review:
Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of Virginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Virginia history.

Virginia: Mapping the Old Dominion State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress (Mapping .... Through History) (Hardcover)
Authors: Vincent Virga and Emilee Hines

A stirring trip through the history of the Old Dominion State
through gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress

• 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress
• Informative captions on each map's origins
• Essays by Virginia author Emilee Hines on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time
• A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library's collection and the state's maps
• A choice selection of modern maps depicting birds-eye-views of towns and cities

About Mapping States Through History

This is the first series to assemble—in full color, state-by-state—an in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America's fifty states. Produced in collaboration with the Library of Congress and edited by renowned photo editor and author Vincent Virga, these books offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through the maps and their narrative captions. Each map thus becomes a virtual time machine that tells us much about the places we live in today. Compelling historical essays by a local writer complement Virga's foreword to further help weave the cartographic record into a drama of settlement and change.

Vince’s friends think he’s crazy to move to small-town Burnt Station, and after a while, Vince and his wife, Annette, begin to agree. As the new lawyer, Vince gets all the quirky cases nobody else wants. His clients include a teenage kleptomaniac, a pot user who streaks the college campus, the judge’s wayward wife, and even the mayor after the town fire department burns the wrong house in a practice. Vince is kidnapped by inept bank robbers after a customer blows out the side of the bank with a supposedly dud grenade. Annette’s boozing uncle has to be taken home from jail regularly, and Vince’s manipulative aunt moves in just as they are renovating an old house. The newspaper editor publishes incorrect stories about Vince that are more outrageous than what’s really happening. This droll novel will keep you laughing from beginning to end.

One reader's review of Burnt: Here is a great story that gets to a wide range of small town and family interactions that are familiar to so many of us. The story line is great and the author keeps the story moving to entice you to read more. It is a light and entertaining read that I would recommend to all. I read it in one sitting with only the necessary breaks one afternoon.

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To traditional British school systems in Africa, add 150 young American teachers, most of them single, and the result is change and adventure. British rule had brought English language, laws, government, education, and customs to East Africa, but three countries-Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda-in the 1960s were on the brink of independence and making their own future. This is the story of one young teacher's travels and adventures from the Congo border to the Indian Ocean, from Victoria Falls to the remote Northern Frontier of Kenya. Teaching in Kenya, she interacted with and came to respect her African students and British colleagues. This is a love affair with East Africa and its people-African, Asian, and European. It is exciting, inspiring, sad, and, most of all, unforgettable.

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Synopsis of this second edition

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More than Petticoats: Remarkable Virginia Women profiles the lives of thirteen resourceful Old Dominion women, all of whom displayed remarkable courage, hope, and love during times of social and political turmoil. Some of these women are well known, such as Pocahontas, who crossed racial and cultural lines to establish friendships with the Jamestown colonists; Martha Washington and Dolley Madison, First Ladies of the young Republic; and Civil War spies Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew. Others less familiar but equally ambitious include banker and philanthropist Maggie Lena Walker, outspoken politician Nancy Astor, and labor organizer Lucy Randolph Mason. Witnesses to momentous events in American history -- colonization, revolution, civil war, and social reform -- these women are linked by their determination, their fortitude, and their bravery. Read about their exciting lives in this collection of brief and absorbing biographies.

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