An interesting dispute about history at Yorktown involving tobacco, slavery, and commemoration: http://wydaily.com/2015/05/08/local-news-yorktown-waterfront-tobacco-press-at-risk-for-removal/ <http://wydaily.com/2015/05/08/local-news-yorktown-waterfront-tobacco-press-at-risk-for-removal/> Here’s a study that suggests that at least once a tobacco press was located not too far away at a waterfront location: http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/002300/002388/pdf/msa_se5_2388.pdf <http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/002300/002388/pdf/msa_se5_2388.pdf> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 757-221-3932 http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ <http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/> http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html <http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html> ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?.... Well, we can't afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers." ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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