Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder

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The Past Becomes the Present…and the Future

Comebacks around restorations of historic theatres are a source of pride in four mountain towns.
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A Tale of Two Men

The conjoined twins lived lives that took them far beyond their biological unusualness.
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Chasing the Stars: Do It Now!

On Open Mic Night in our small mountain town of Clifton Forge, you just sit back and take what comes along, and it’s all fine.
His 1992 Blue Ridge Country article and 1994 book

First Union: The Melungeons Revisited

In 1991, writer Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder spent time in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee investigating the Melungeons, a group of people who'd been an enigma in Appalachian history for centuries.
Mary Draper Ingles' Return to Virginia's New River Valley

Reader Favorites: Mary Draper Ingles’ Return to Virginia’s New River Valley

An Extraordinary Woman, And Equal To Any Emergency: Mary Draper Ingles' Return To Virginia's New River Valley

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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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