Despite the unwanted atttention Charolttesville VA is one of the few towns that you can have platforms at a diamond that have trains going every direction. This is railfan heaven! The Ped Mall has great restaurants and the C & O Restaurant is very classy. http://www.candorestaurant.com/
CandOforprogress2 Despite the unwanted atttention Charolttesville VA is one of the few towns that you can have platforms at a diamond that have trains going every direction. This is railfan heaven! The Ped Mall has great restaurants and the C & O Restaurant is very classy. http://www.candorestaurant.com/ Thier alot of fine trains stations in Virginia, a stAte rich in rail history.
Not to be political, but most of the unfortunate incidents in Charlottesville revolved around people who don't actually live there. I first visited Charlottesville at age 10 in 1942 and last visited around 1992 in connection with acoustical consulting work at UofV. It impressed me as of a fine community. My Brother-in-Law. Leonard Kasle. r.i.p., was Rabbi of the synaggogue 1941-1944, then called to Charleston, then to Navy Chaplaincy at the Marine Base, Camp Lajoun. At the synagogue, there were members who spanned the gamut from Reform-nearly-secular to Orthodox and very observant. Leonard also was Hillel Director at UofV and taught there, I think Phiolosophy, not sure. It always showed me a tolerant community. I recall boarding a public bus with my niece and nephew and the family's maid, Sally, an African-American woman, and the bus driver told us that we could sit together and not bother about the segregation sign. While I was visiting, Leonard and Gertrude had guests to dinner, students and other teachers from UofV as well as synagogue congregants. The teachers and students included Christians, both Catholics and Protestants. I never thought of the place as anything but a tolerant community, and my much later visits to the UofV never changed that opinion.
And even in later years, I always arrived and left by train. The Southerner, the Tennesean, the Sportsman, the George Washington, and some locals. I know that Union Station pretty well.
Yes, I wish the bigotry and well-organized counter-resistance had not decided to target Charlottesville, a community that deserves better. I spent extensive time there in the mid-'80s and almost settled in Keswick at that time, and much of what Dave was saying was still evident at that time.
I have only positive things to say about Charlottesville's law enforcement, from the patrolmen right up to the local magistrate. I find it hard to believe the situation would have changed for the worse, racially, between the '80s and now, but I never cease to be astounded anew at how so many things have gotten lousier since the turn of the new century.
https://archive.org/stream/ProceedingsOfTheThirty-seventhAnnualReunionOfTheVirginiaGrandCamp/GCCV2#page/n1/mode/1up
Been to that Synagoge...Nice Folks
Great Find!!
wanswheel https://archive.org/stream/ProceedingsOfTheThirty-seventhAnnualReunionOfTheVirginiaGrandCamp/GCCV2#page/n1/mode/1up
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