Welcome to the Blue Ridge Traditions Marketplace, offering a wonderful selection
of books about Virginia and the Blue Ridge region, or books written by writers from
the Blue Ridge area. We also offer a selection of building replicas of landmarks found
in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Come on in!

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Moonshine
T. Keister Greer
Third printing of a legal history and local history at its best. A real group of people, a real series of trials. See how post-Civil-War Virginia coped with lack of livelihoods and how moonshining filled a void. The accounts of the many defendants and witnesses in the various trials make the book even more interesting, as their ways of explaining things, their expressions, their vocabulary truly set this era apart.
Hardcover, 913 pages. 5 lbs.
7 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 2

Qty:   $60 



Genesis of a Virginia Frontier
 T. Keister Greer
Originally written in 1946 as a History thesis at the University of Virginia, this treatise is a careful, very detailed account of the origins of Franklin County, VA, as the county was created from earlier counties. The East-West migration of mostly English and Scottish-American Virginians dispels other theories of the predominant German migration from PA to this county in its early days. Lots of maps.
Paperback, 150 pages.

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Qty:   $25 



Jacob Bunn
 Andrew Taylor Call
A detailed corporate history of an early settler of central Illinois whose businesses and decisions and legacies live on today, this book is full of photographs, has a detailed Index and Bibliography, and is an amazing achievement for an author of 24. People and companies central to the life and legacies of Jacob Bunn include: Abraham Lincoln, Springfield Marine Bank, Bunn Capitol Grocery Co., Bunn-O-Matic Coffee Co., Chicago-Republican newspaper (one of the first that Mark Twain wrote for), sugar beet industry, Jerome I. Case of Case Machinery, railroads of the Midwest, Illinois Watch Co., Sangamo Electric Co., standardized railroad time, Bunn Special pocket watches, and many, many other people, places, and things that had major impacts on American life, business, and military history since the mid-19th century. See www.bunnlegacy.com for details.
Hardcover, 308 pages.

Qty:   $39 $19.95 


Moving Day
 Ibby Greer
A novel made up entirely of letters written from the main character and Boulder, CO, resident, Ann C. Bow, to her family and friends in one year, this novel received praise from Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author pf “A Woman of Independent Means,” another epistolary novel by another graduate of Hollins College in Virginia. Ann Bow, a widow of 74, is a spiritual woman who has to face change, loss, grief, and modern life. Humor, mellow reflection, and an artistic personality characterize the subject of this fictitious book.
Hardcover, 167 pages.

Qty:   $24 $10.00 


Paper Faces
 Ibby Greer
Memoir of a privileged baby boomer whose life has taken her all over the USA and abroad. Intimate, moving, with moments of joy and grief, this book written in free verse brings the second half of the 20th century to life.
Paperback, 192 pages.

Qty:   $15 $4.95 

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