Word: powhatan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born in Powhatan County, Va. of an old Southern family, tall, good-looking Julien Binford was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship ($2,500) in 1932, spent three years studying in Paris. Returning to the U.S. with a charming French wife, Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in Virginia, started farming, painting the local Negroes. He also succeeded in arousing the local white population. Commissioned last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing...
...slave, Miles was born in Powhatan, Va. the year Abraham Lincoln signed "the paper"-the Emancipation Proclamation. He went north in 1881. Theodore Roosevelt used to stride into the Club, crying: "Miles, you old rascal-you still here?" Said Miles last week: "I've always been a Republican. I'll always be a Republican. I'd vote for anyone who was a Republican...
...Perhaps we best can illustrate the immense potentialities of this news by citing a simple and familiar Virginia parallel. Assume that all counties south of the James River . . . were French territory, and that the counties north of the James , . . were German. Let Powhatan be Belgium, which is neutral. Goochland would correspond to The Netherlands. ... If in this situation the Germans were crowding . . . with hundreds of planes into the western corner of Henrico . . . what would be your suspicion...
...Captain Smith did not mention it in the 1608 account of his Virginia exploits, added it in 1624 after Pocahontas had been lionized in London as Powhatan's attractive daughter...