Charlottesville Podcasting Network
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Martin Gallivan is an Archaeologist at the College of William and Mary. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about his work studying Werowocomoco, the political capital of the Powhatan Confederation, the civilization that existed just before the arrival of European settlers to North America.
Charlottesville native John J Gaines III joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about growing up as an African-American in a Southern city. For instance, his mother couldn’t give birth to him at Martha Jefferson Hospital in 1937. Gaines grew up in the 10th and Page neighborhood, which has changed drastically in his seventy-year life. He spent forty years working as a teacher and an administrator in the Charlottesville City school system. Gaines also weighs in on the recent rash of late night beatings in downtown Charlottesville.
George Gilliam is with the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, which is just about to begin its fall season of lectures and debates. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to give the details. Gilliam also discusses why he thinks the study of the Reconstruction South can inform today’s scholarship of the reconstruction of Iraq.
Patrick Griffin is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and the author of American Leviathan: Empire Nation and Revolutionary Frontier. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the origins of his book.
Dan Jordan, President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about our City’s most famous residence.
“Monticello is the only home in America to be on the World Heritage list,” he says. “That’s a distinction that Monticello shares with the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt.”
In this interview, Jordan explores the past, present and future of Monticello. Of special note is their award-winning website, which Jordan call an amazing outreach tool for the historic site. Check out their podcast site as well.
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Author and historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot every week to talk about local history. This week’s discussion begins with a discussion of the term “Hispanic” and then on to a history of the Rotunda.
On August 14, 2007, a time machine temporarily turned the east end of the Downtown Mall back to the year 1807, allowing for Orange County resident James Madison to appear. He spoke about foreign affairs and whether he should run for president. Mr. Madison (as played by JohnG,V Douglas Hall) also took questions from the audience.
The time machine was arranged by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
Historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot to talk about the U.Va Cemetery, which he says predates the founding of the University. The graves of at least three people who died before 1825 lie in the cemetery. He wrote a pamphlet to the burial ground a few years ago. Tune in to find out the answer to this week’s quiz question: What was the previous name of the University of Virginia?
Steve Corneliussen is the vice president of Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park. Fort Monroe has been an Army base in Hampton Roads since shortly after the War of 1812. The long history and stunning natural beauty of the site are reasons Steve calls it aG,V “national treasure.” The Department of Defense has offered Fort Monroe to Virginia when the Army vacates the property in 2011. Corneliussen’s group would like to see the base transformed into a National Park rather than given over to private developers.
On this installment of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot, Steve Corneliussen explains why his group takes issue with a plan currently endorsed by Governor Kaine to develop the land. The Civil War Preservation Trust has placed the Fort Monroe site on a list of the ten most endangered battlefields in America.
One of the downtown fixtures of the City of Charlottesville for over 30 years is Sandy McAdams, the owner of Daedalus Bookshop. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville to talk about the challenges he’s had operating a business off the Downtown Mall. McAdams moved to Charlottesville in 1974, at a time when 29 North “had four buildings on it.” He and Coy talk about what our city was like in the mid-seventies, when the creation of the downtown mall was causing controversey. But McAdams and other business owners persevered while East Main Street was bricked over, and brought attention to Charlottesville by helping to create the famed C&O Restaurant.
We’ve long known about horrific episodes of lynching in the South, but the story of widespread racial cleansing above and below the Mason-Dixon line has remained almost entirely unknown. Time after time in the period between Reconstruction and the 1920’s, whites banded together to drive out blacks in their midst.G,V They burned and killed indiscriminately and drove thousands from their homes, sweeping entire counties clear of anyone with dark skin. Many of these areas remain virtually all-white to this day.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Elliot Jaspin has spent the past ten years documenting the attempted genocides of America, resulting in his new book Buried in the Bitter Waters. Jaspin joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about his work.
Cartographer and historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to give a little Charlottesville 101. He tells us how the city gots its name, the relevance of the Three Notch’d Road, and the role that Court Square played in Albemarle County history.