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The Library has received gifts of three fine books by Rappahannock County authors.
Mrs. Ollie Atkins gave us her late husband’s Triumph and Tragedy, the White House Years. Mr. Atkins was Nixon’s official White House photographer from 1969 to 1974, and photographed the former president virtually every day—on the campaign trail, in China and Moscow, and in intimate shots at home with his family. Some of these pictures are worldfamous, some are published for the first time. A candid, personal text accompanies the photographs.
James J. Kilpatrick’s The Foxes’ Union, subtitled And Other Stretchers, Tall Tales and Discursive Reminiscences of Happy Years in Scrabble, Virginia, is delightful reading for all who love Rappahannock County as he does. The book is not an anthology of Scrabble-datelined columns, although some of the material will be familiar to faithful readers, but tells in detail of finding White Walnut Hill (formerly the June Corbin place) and the Kilpatricks’ life there; of many well-known Rappahannockers; of flora and fauna of our county, including the foxes mentioned in the title; and the birthday letters to granddaughter Heather.
Charles L. Perdue, Jr. compiled and edited Weevils in the Wheat, Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, published by the University of Virginia. The book contains 159 interviews with ex-slaves made by the Virginia Writers’ Project between 1936 and 1941, published for the first time. Most of these were conducted by Blacks, thus nroviriing information on the slaves’ own views of slavery not generally available. Annie Perry Wallace, interviewed in Culpeper in 1940, had lived in Woodville with her husband Charles where their thirteen children were born and raised.
In addition to the gift books the Library has acquired in the past month the timely Path Between the Seas, the Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough; Modern and Classic Woodburning Stoves by Bob and Carol Ross; An Apple a Day, “a windfall of recipes” compiled by Joyce Hays; The Art of Blacksmithing, a revised edition of Alex Bealer’s classic; All-season Hunting by Bob Gilsvik; A Rumor of War, a personal memoir of lUiiitHUiiHnuiiiuiiiiiiiRiiniiimiHiini^
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