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          Here are some photos from the twentieth anniversary of the celebration of the Virginia Literary Award. My friend and colleague David Baldacci was honored this year with the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. Also pictured above is Margot Lee Shetterly, 2017 People’s Choice Award winner in nonfiction with her book, Hidden Figures. This is also the fifth annual

Thomas Jefferson’s Houses and Gardens [TJ’s Houses and Gardens] Copyright 2007 Katherine Neville Please contact Katherine Neville for permission to quote from this article.  All photos: Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey archive, unless noted otherwise.   From: Katherine Neville  To: Lynn Beebe, President and Travis McDonald, Historian of Poplar Forest May, 200

written July 4, 2010 (Katherine Neville’s July 4th Newsletter) “THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON” “Let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” -Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1826 On July 4, 1826–a date that, coincidentally, also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Declarati

Maya Angelou: Christmas 1989 Maya Angelou and I had many interesting encounters and many mutual connections; a few are included here. When Karl Pribram and I left Stanford University in 1989, we barely had time to cross the country and get to Virginia with our pets, unload the moving van with our 26,000 pounds of books, papers, equipment, clothes (but no furniture!) – then hit the tracks aga