Word: shenandoah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before he died, Mulcahy rented a spartan one-room cabin at the Mountain View Motel Court in the sylvan Shenandoah Valley. Last Monday he drunkenly fired a shotgun at his cabin door, and the motel owner suggested he leave. Mulcahy lugged five suitcases, three of them packed with his files on Wilson and Terpil, out to his pickup truck. The motel owner locked the door and left; Mulcahy apparently stayed. Early the next morning, after a chill night of 40° temperatures, his body was found slumped against his cabin. His pants were around his ankles. Inside the cabin...
...major general the following February after winning the unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson in Tennessee. Grant soon perceived that the war meant annihilation. He pursued that vision personally in bloody battles at Vicksburg, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, and more remotely when he commanded Philip Sheridan to leave the Shenandoah Valley "a barren waste...
Fear in a Small Town. Strasburg, Va., is arguing with the U.S. Census Bureau that its official population count of 2,288 people is too low. But the Shenandoah Valley town has one resident it does not want: a ski-masked white man who has entered eight or more homes, usually just after the husband has left for work in the morning, and raped at least two women. Joann Orndorff, 33, white, was saved when her German shepherd-Labrador retriever, Tippy, attacked the rapist. Mrs. Orndorff, like a score of other Strasburg women, now owns a handgun...
Native Austinite Frieda Werden, editor and publisher of Texan Women and published in Shenandoah, Cedar Rock, Lucille, and Texas Quarterly, among others, admits to Kuzminsky's influence on her own writing, but in her politically potent verse she relies heavily on women's progress from traditional southwestern upbringing into the feminist sophistication of the Eighties. The following is an excerpt from "The Lady in Pink...
...shows that have come out of the Goodspeed are almost as impressive as the old ones that have gone into it. The Man of La Mancha first had his impossible dream there in 1965, and Shenandoah followed nine years later. Annie also got her start there in 1976, and four years later is still S.R.O. on Broadway. Wherever the orphan goes, she is still remembered fondly in her home town of East Haddam, Conn. The 1% of Annie's box-office gross that the Opera House retained covers a substantial part of its $325,000 yearly deficit. After Johnny...