Editors’ Note: This is the second in the VoxFairfax series honoring the Virginia women in history memorialized by their statues in Richmond. The author, Nancy Alexander Simmons, is a descendant of Mary Draper Ingles. By Nancy Alexander Simmons It was… Read More ›
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Elizabeth Keckly: Dinwiddie, Virginia
Editors’ Note: Cross-posted from The New York Times, December 12, 2018. These are obituaries “about remarkable women whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.” VoxFairfax plans to publish an article on each of the Virginia women for whom statues… Read More ›
Virginia Women in History Feted Today in Richmond
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 9, 2019. By Colleen Curran After almost 10 years in the works, the Virginia Women’s Monument is going to be unveiled at Capitol Square on Monday, October 14. Seven life-size bronze statues… Read More ›