At the heart of this BRT are records of roads and journeys crisscrossing the state like the variety of threads in the quilt on our front cover.
 
Ride along with us on horseback in Albemarle and Rockbridge Counties on roads built by Frenchman Claudius Crozet [Niederlehner]; by carriage through Botetourt [Bryan]; by wagon and car from Henrico and Goochland Counties across to Bedford [Poindexter]; with a truckbed of salvaged antiques along Rt. 11/Memorial Avenue in Roanoke [Cockrell]; near a semi-truck flying down Christiansburg Mountain on I-81 through Montgomery County [Pauley]; and along Rt. 460’s ribbon from the Piedmont, Southside, and Allegheny Plateau into eastern Kentucky  [Greer/Hopkins]. You’re goin’ on a journey!
 
BRT believes in words. We take as much pride in our writing as in our articles. Sophisticated and correct use of English is dying all around us, especially in TV/radio/film and print media. But not at BRT. Agree? Give a gift subscription.
 
Like the threads in a memory quilt, threads of history fasten and illustrate this issue. A spool of thread with its needle and thimble are the end-tags for each story in this issue. Look for  artistic details in BRT. Use BRT as a map of culture, a guidebook. Think, then, of what you can do to record, preserve, and share the culture. Writers are welcome to send us queries.
 
“Culture” is not a fancier car or a bigger house or a new baseball cap. Culture is knowing when to remove the cap, learning how the road got there, and what makes a house historic.
 
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 - Ibby Greer

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