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...folksy War-Between-the-States history lesson, second-generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed hat and redlined cape galloping around [Union General George] McClellan during the Peninsular Campaign . . . the incomparable Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg . . . Appomattox Court House and Marse Robert's ride to Richmond . . . Then I thought of the terrible Reconstruction and old Thad Stevens and Ben Wade, who wanted Andrew Johnson kicked out so he could be the President...
After lunch at Virginia House, a handsome Tudor mansion on the banks of the James River, Ike and Mamie motored through intermittent rain and hail showers to Fredericksburg, where the President placed a pungent boxwood wreath on the monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first President. In Fredericksburg, Ike met two lively old ladies. Mrs. Julia Link Wine and her twin sister, Mrs. Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state...
...aluminum trailer truck rumbled into Fredericksburg, Va. one day this week and parked near an elementary school. Outside it looked like any ordinary truck, but the inside was unusual: it contained a small, well-stocked art gallery. The truck was Virginia's new "artmobile," the U.S.'s first art gallery on wheels. Its purpose: to bring great art to people who ordinarily never set foot inside a museum...
...Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the truck cost $40,000. has a display area of 32 ft. by 7 ft., airconditioning, an intricate burglar alarm, special wall clamps and brackets to keep pictures and sculpture from bouncing around on rough country roads. After dedication ceremonies in Fredericksburg, people started to file into the exhibit 20 at a time (admission free). Over the truck's P.A. system came 17th century harpsichord music to set the mood for the show, followed by a recorded lecture. On exhibit were sixteen 15th to 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including such...
...addition to their local appearance, the orchestra has scheduled concerts in Natick, Floral Park, N.Y., Fredericksburg, Va., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C. The group's performances are presented under the auspices of the Pierian Sodality...