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Characters of Central Virginia: John Chaloner

Rick Britton

Rick Britton

Award-winning historian and cartographer Rick Britton is frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. In January and February of 2010 Rick presented six lectures in a new series entitled "Characters of Central Virginia: The Famous, the Infamous, & the Undeniably Odd". The series was held at the Charlottesville Senior Center.

Central Virginia has always been known for its fascinating inhabitants. This six-session series featured: Dr. Thomas Walker, discoverer of the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky; James Monroe, forgotten hero of the American Revolution; Dolley Madison, our nation’s first "First Lady"; Claudius Crozet who built the world’s longest railroad tunnel; Ben Ficklin, founder of the Pony Express; Cyrus McCormick who invented the reaper; the "Moon Ghost" who haunted southern Albemarle; self-made millionaire Samuel Miller; Maud Coleman Woods, "America’s Most Beautiful Blonde"; lunatic and philanthropist Archie Chaloner; Congressional Medal winner Frank Peregoy; and "Anastasia," the Romanov family pretender who once convinced the world!

 
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In a county famed for its wealthy eccentrics, John Armstrong Chaloner stands alone at the head of the class. He began his professional life well-educated, well-heeled, and well-connected. He became a poet, a novelist, and a playwright (of sorts), a patron of the arts, a philanthropist, and a dabbler in eastern philosophy and the occult. He believed he had special powers and could contact those beyond the grave. Chaloner’s bizarre behavior, and weird writings, were the source of cocktail-party snickering for close to four decades. "Virginia was his earthly tabernacle," wrote J. Bryan III, "but in spirit he lived Through the Looking-Glass, a congenial neighbor to the Mad Hatter and the White Knight." Despite his many oddities, however, Chaloner was loved by Albemarle County’s poor and disadvantaged. It is doubtful whether we will ever see his like again.

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Colette Sheehy joins Coy to discuss the university’s challenges in this historic economic downturn.

 
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John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute , joins Coy to discuss civil liberties.

 
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