Great Find!!
wanswheel https://archive.org/stream/ProceedingsOfTheThirty-seventhAnnualReunionOfTheVirginiaGrandCamp/GCCV2#page/n1/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/ProceedingsOfTheThirty-seventhAnnualReunionOfTheVirginiaGrandCamp/GCCV2#page/n1/mode/1up
Been to that Synagoge...Nice Folks
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.
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.
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.
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/
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