To take up Sam Sheppard's original point in this thread:

Somewhere on my computer is a record of a train trip that John D.
Rockefeller Jr., a descendant of St. George Tucker, and, I think, James
H. Dillard--later chairman of the General Education Board--took across
part of the South and most of Virginia (starting across the Old
Dominion, I think, in Hampton), but 1905 sounds too early. Maybe not. If
Sam Sheppard thinks this could be part of the May Campaign, I'll try to
scout it up and post it. If memory serves, it was on this trip that the
John D. Rockefeller Jr. forged his connection with what is now Hampton
University.


To join the discussion about the suspension of Virginia Cavalcade:

Every person interested in Virginia history rues the Cavalcade's
absence, and hopes for its revival, among them me. Until that day
comes--and I hope it is soon--may I suggest for consideration as an
alternative, Colonial Williamsburg, the journal of the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation? As it happens, I have the luck to be the
current editor of that popular-history, five-times-a-year, 88-page,
four-color magazine. The journal's writ runs only to subjects that are
"colonial" or "Williamsburg" or "Colonial Williamsburg," and has no
pretensions to the diversity that made the Cavalcade so valuable. Nor is
it scholarly. But many find it enjoyable, others aggravating, and most a
bargain at $35-a-year--much of which is tax deductible and goes to
support the foundation's educational endeavors.

Subscriptions and free sample copies can be had at:
http://history.org/foundation/journal/feature.cfm

Otherwise, a selection of three to five stories from each issue is
posted on the Colonial Williamsburg Web site--also
http://history.org/foundation/journal/feature.cfm--and indefinitely
maintained where the whole is word-searchable. For educators, history
buffs, genealogists, and others, there is a remarkably wide range of
resources accessible through the portal page: http://history.org

Dennis Montgomery
Editor
Colonial Williamsburg




Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe wrote:

>> From this distance I would be reluctant to advise.  I think those
>> historians
>
> living in and near the Richmond area should meet and talk about how to
> restart Virginia Cavalcade.  Perhaps with a starter grant, the LV
> would be
> able to pick up support for the journal in a year or two.
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter Waddell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:07 PM
> Subject: Re: The May Campaign of 1905 05111954Z05 05112106Z05
>
>
>> And how does that help to restart the program? -- Now that I stirred
>> your
>> blood.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: The May Campaign of 1905 05111954Z05
>>
>>
>> Let me just suggest briefly that anyone interested in the cause of the
>> demise of Virginia Cavalcade and a whole series of layoffs at the LV,
>> read
>> the local press very closely from the time around when all those cuts
>> were
>> announced.  I don't write this to exonerate or to implicate Governor
>> Warner.
>> I just want to suggest that, as I read the Virginia press from this
>> distance
>> (New York), there were a number of very interesting events in action
>> involving the LV at the time.  Each member should examine the
>> evidence and
>> draw his or her own conclusions.
>>
>> Harold S. Forsythe
>> Golieb Fellow
>> New York University, School of Law
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Walter Waddell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: The May Campaign of 1905 05111954Z05
>>
>>
>>> Not by me; but, as a Californian, having adopted the Commonwealth of
>>> Virginia as my home of residence since 1972, I am disappointed in you
>>> Virginia historians that have not made any attempt to restart the now
>>> defunct "Virginia Cavalcade" Magazine that our wonder boy Governor
>>> Warner
>>> axed owing to miscalculated budget considerations. He did get his tax
>>> raise
>>> though. I view that decision as an unfavorable turning point in
>>> promoting
>>> America's first colony. But how dare I, an outsider, suggest something
>>> really constructive be done to enhance and preserve Virginia's
>>> heritage.
>>>
>>> Regards, Ray
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Brent Tarter" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:19 PM
>>> Subject: The May Campaign of 1905
>>>
>>>
>>> On behalf of long-time Va-Hist subscriber Sam Shepherd, I post this
>>> query to our company:
>>>
>>>
>>> As a Virginia historian living in Louisiana, I am writing to ask if
>>> anyone is aware of efforts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
>>> Virginia's celebrated "May Campaign" of 1905? It would hardly be an
>>> exaggeration to characterize that campaign as a turning point in the
>>> history of public education in Virginia. Backed by the General
>>> Education
>>> Board and energized by the leaders of the Richmond Education
>>> Association
>>> and the Cooperative Education Association, speakers fanned out across
>>> the commonwealth. With evangelist fervor these politicians, educations,
>>> ministers, and journalists appeared at local rallies in support of
>>> better public schools.
>>> In response, the governor and the legislature took a series of actions
>>> that brought about the construction of school buildings, longer terms,
>>> higher salaries and a better curriculum. These improvements served as a
>>> foundation for other subsequent changes.  This is an episode in the
>>> state's history that needs to be remembered and perhaps celebrated as
>>> well. Any feedback will be appreciated.
>>> Sam Shepherd, Centenary College
>>> [log in to unmask]
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