Subscriptions are coming in from all over! Thank you! The official Virginia Welcome Centers regularly email us for more copies to have available for the thousands of visitors coming into Virginia on every interstate.
  
  
This issue will take you from the Winchester area down to Southside and from central Virginia over to Greenbrier County, WV (which, of course, was once all Virginia. So we count it!) You will read about famous people hobnobbing with each other long ago at White Sulphur Springs (Bryan); people from Roanoke and Botetourt Counties mingling with the interesting and famous in Virginia Reflections (Hopkins); and the wars and adventures of 18th Century soldier and patriot Daniel Morgan (Poindexter). Art and Letters are represented by native Virginian Willa Cather (Poindexter), Southside artist Nancy Poteat Compton who works down the road from where Virginia schoolgirl Georgia O’Keeffe went to Chatham Hall (Greer), and “Siddy” Wilson’s art museum at [my alma mater] Hollins University (Lynch-McWhite). Something old and something new: buffalos are making a comeback in the Blue Ridge (Pauley), and a new research institute and conference center are helping Southside Virginia move beyond the tobacco culture (Greer).

One of the missions of this little magazine is to celebrate the culture of the Blue Ridge Region, and all of Virginia, and also to attract a younger generation to the magazine. We want to encourage younger readers to read historical and cultural articles. Young people today read very little. They write very little, and quite poorly. Their vocabulary is shrinking alarmingly. The whole culture is being so “dumbed-down” to accommodate people who resist learning standard English that we are in danger of turning out future generations of culturally-illiterate non-readers. Does this matter to you? Want to make a difference, one school at a time? Consider giving your old copy of BRT to a school library.
 
So enjoy this issue and look for the next one in November!

Ibby Greer

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