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...most difficult challenges facing doomsday planners was deciding what cultural treasures should be saved. In 1950 the National Gallery of Art began construction of a $550,000 facility on the grounds of Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., as a safe haven for works of art. Funded by a private trust, the windowless structure had storage areas for sculptures and screened partitions to protect paintings. Nearby was a three-bedroom cottage, fully furnished and complete with china, silverware and napkins -- ready for the curator to move in and oversee the collection. Several former gallery executives recall that...
...Cowboy Junkies, who originate (curiously enough) from Toronto, express their fascination with the American South in many of their songs. Black Eyed Man recalls their past tour experiences, conjuring up images of backwater towns like Macon, Georgia, where the Civil War seems to linger unresolved in the minds of old Confederates...
Kerrigan's nationwide exposure on the CBS Evening News and in--among others--The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek helped win her a position as a guest lecturer at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg...
...part of Randolph-Macon's American Culture Program, Kerrigan spoke on "political correctness and free speech codes on campus," she says...
...that his father, despondent because of his billboard firm's mounting debts, had sold its big, newly acquired Atlanta division just before killing himself. The young Turner did everything he could to nullify the contract and win back the business, luring away employees from the Atlanta unit to the Macon, Ga., division he retained, shifting lucrative contracts between companies, threatening to destroy financial records and "to build billboards in front of theirs." Turner ultimately persuaded the buyers to rescind the deal in exchange for $200,000 worth of stock in the company...