Thomas Jefferson

Named 486 times. These are the 400 blocks the name was read from (the first 400 kept), in the order the paper printed them.

Oct 27, 1977 Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bane were ...of Rappahannock Elementary School on a field trip Thursday to the home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Mrs. William Ubben took her daughter, Virginia, to Charlottesville Wednesday for a hearing checkup. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Welch of Limeton were Sunday...
Aug 10, 1978 Inc Virginia Revenue ...at James Madison University in Harrisonburg and for 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Arlington. Chairman Leafe expects to hear testimony regarding exemptions such as those given to farmers, the elderly and handicapped persons. The...
Oct 26, 1978 Error W iftilin may be Merited where reason is Error W iftilin may be Merited where reason is free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
Nov 30, 1978 PUBLIC NOTICE ...Planning District Commission, 121 W. Locust Street, Culpeper, Va. 22701. P. D. 10: Thomas Jefferson Planning District Com! mission, 701 East High Street, Charlottesville, Va. 22901. P. D. 16: Rappahannock Area Development Commission, I 1013 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Va....
Feb 1, 1979 Offerings By Lyne ...the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, “As an impressive example of the influence of Thomas Jefferson’s Classical Revival style on the country homes of Piedmont Virginia”, is two stories with English basement, dependencies from the antibellum period include the school house,...
Feb 8, 1979 business. In one of the few reminders that we ...exact seats where, in a movie the night before, they’d seen George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry sit as members of Virginia's House of Burgesses. In the kitchen of the governor's palace, we listened as colonial cooks explained
Feb 22, 1979 RLEP ...of the Shenandoah Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited and conservation director of the Thomas Jefferson chapter of that organization in Charlottesville. The meeting will be held in the Rappahannock court house in Washington and begins at 7:30 p.m.
Aug 2, 1979 Kilpatrick On ...deployed to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. A 1967 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, Richmond, Va., he joined the Navy in March 1979. Reunion A reunion of the late Ernest and Neva Nicholson Dodson family will be...
Jan 17, 1980 Falls ...Funeral Home by Rev. Moody Wooten. Interment was at Hillcrest Memory tjardens. ++++ Thomas Jefferson steadfastly supported freedom of the press, even as he himself was being slandered and libeled by many newspapers.
Jan 31, 1980 Travel Lag ...or 347-0440. In the event of bad weather, the meeting will be rescheduled. Thomas Jefferson was one of the first Americans to rotate crops and employ contour plowing.
Jan 31, 1980 Tax Credits ...the equipment until it is determined whether tax credits will be allowed. ++++ Thomas Jefferson suggested the invention of the stop watch for making astronomical observations.
Sep 25, 1980 under Thomas Jefferson during the construction of Monticello and under Thomas Jefferson during the construction of Monticello and the University of Virginia. The "country” Gothic design building was originally covered with board-andbatten siding. In the 1920s, the present pebble-dash finish was added. Trinity Episcopal is considered to be among...
Nov 6, 1980 ladies’ facilities and the other the mens’. I might ...quail. 1 never did like liver anyway.” H—I—I—h John Madison Randolph, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, was the first baby born in the White House. +++-1
Feb 12, 1981 turn it into a municipal facility never saw success. ...22 entirely under the direction of James Leake Powers (1799-188^), a contemporary of Thomas Jefferson's who also worked on the University of Virginia under the supervision of the third U.S. presideni. In addition, Leake was respondible for the woodwork on...
Jul 2, 1981 Democracy’s ...is filled with Presidential interest in the advancement of public education. Many remember Thomas Jefferson’s famous statement,, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state oi civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”...
Jul 2, 1981 In the thirteen Colonies 200 years ago, not everyone ...government the Colonies would uphold. July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted the Thomas Jefferson draft of the Declaration of Independence which was signed immediately by John Hancock, president of the Congress. Others signed on August 2 and later. Many...
Sep 10, 1981 By THERESA REYNOLDS ...a sunny afternoon he was deploring the condition of his vines and quoting Thomas Jefferson. “I couldn't get here at all this summer until the grapes were, just about ready to pick," he said. "1 have hired people to keep...
Oct 15, 1981 architecture of Krebser’s homeland. The carved furniture, leaded glass, ...was built in 1857 by James Leake Powers who served his apprenticeship under Thomas Jefferson and is of a country Gothic design. The white stucco structure has at tall steeple and is illuminated , by day "with " stained glasi...
Nov 12, 1981 To the editor: ...can get until such time as farming once more becomes a profession. As Thomas Jefferson said in 1803, trying to persuade students to go into agriculture rather than other studies: In every college and university, a professorship of agriculture, and...
Jan 7, 1982 Tuesday to Friday at the ...larger works is Randall Thompson's “The Testament of Freedom" which is based on Thomas Jefferson’s words from the Declaration of Independence. A group of ballads and folk songs about America's growth and westward movement will be followed by 20th century...
Apr 15, 1982 The RappahannockRapidan The RappahannockRapidan Planning District Commission and the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission join the Virginia Division of Industrial Development and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service in sponsoring a regional Industrial Development Seminar on Tuesday, April 20, at the Ramada Inn...
Apr 29, 1982 The Rappahannock Choral ...Randall Thompson which is a setting of four passages from the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Other works are ballads about the development of America, love songs, novelty selections and an instrumental ensemble perDEPENDABLE SERVICE [J. F. NICHOLSOI Trash Service Castleton,...
Jul 1, 1982 his life and can remember ...Venue, Jessamine Hill and the county’s courthouse who learned his trade working under Thomas Jefferson, was young Jack’s first teacher. An intelligent and well educated person, she had memorized most of the McGufly Readers. Miss Powers was also a great...
Sep 30, 1982 Commonwealth's attorney Douglas ...work of a program or the validity of a public action.” He recalled Thomas Jefferson, “a man of extraordinary abilities who not only believed in education but insisted upon its dissemination, and that
Oct 14, 1982 As the nation observes National ...of the press. One of the most vocal supporters of a free press, Thomas Jefferson, in his “Writings” stated that “No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free none ever will.” The Rappahannock News and...
Oct 14, 1982 Johnny Appleseea was a real person - John (.hapman, ...Age of Europe. The two most famous American orchadists - George Washington and Thomas Jefferson -were Virginia apple growers. The first apple storages in America, back in Colonial days and for many years thereafter, were called common storages or root...
Oct 14, 1982 Delicious ...volume to Europe, and the first American variety to be planted in England. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both planted this variety and Benjamin Franklin extolled its virtues in Europe.
Dec 16, 1982 By THERESA REV ISOLDS ...was seed cakes made from all kinds of seeds: caraway, coriander and cumin. Thomas Jefferson was trying to promote the use of Kenne or sesame seeds in Virginia, thinking that it would be a popular commercial crop. You may want...
Feb 3, 1983 To the editor: ...example, during the founding of our Commonwealth, wise citizens such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Harrison and the Byrds discovered a viable solutionthe lottery. Money raised was used to finance the Virginia Company, build churches, schools, canals and other...
Feb 24, 1983 wouc wdo tUC oyiUUUlUilll llivuivea. ...man who more nearly approximates a Moses than a George Washington or a Thomas Jefferson. In truth, white Virginians have no hero who stands quite as tall as does Dr. King in the eyes of his people. He is larger...
Apr 21, 1983 proposition sounds quite reasonable and fair but on closer ...and at private expense but, apparently, they subscribed wholeheartedly to this dictum of Thomas Jefferson: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be” (Letter to...
Apr 21, 1983 utai vuac siiuuiu o<iy. “We will no longer pay ...While speaking, that public voice of Rappahannock should add this dictum (also from Thomas Jefferson) for the guidance of office holders in this county: “When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”
Apr 21, 1983 -From Both Barrels ...Robb’s Home Run By GEORGE BOWLES Gov. Chuck Robb’s appointment of John Charles Thomas to the state Supreme Court will, without question, go down in the history books as one of the most significant initiatives of his administration. Mr. Thomas,...
May 5, 1983 St. John’s Episcopal Church was an interesting historical site. ...Episcopal Church was an interesting historical site. There, Patrick Henry, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson stood in 1775 for the Virginia Convention. It was there that Patrick Henry made his famous speed, “Give me liberty or give me death!” In...
May 12, 1983 carried into the store. (His original designs have since ...Virginia?’ I asked, and she came back with ‘If it’s good enough for Thomas Jefferson, it’s good enough for you!' How can you argue with that kind of logic?” Kramer added, laughing.
Aug 18, 1983 was being placed upon Carter by Kissinger, Rockefeller and ...in the United States of America, one has only to conclude that if Thomas Jefferson,
Aug 25, 1983 "Rise at a fixed and early hour, and go ...at night is injurious to the health, and not useful to the mind.” Thomas Jefferson (1785) *** “An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.” Thomas Jefferson (1785) “The Seventies was the Decade of the...
Sep 22, 1983 By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON ...to succeed in the same temperatures here wherever tried by intelligent viguerons" — Thomas Jefferson, IfiJJ Most Americans remember Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence, a young nation's third President or founder of the University of...
Oct 6, 1983 Rappahannock’s month long ...are the sons and daughters of George Washington, James Madison, George Mason and Thomas Jefferson so slow to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote.
Oct 13, 1983 when you enter the voting booth on November 8. ...their dedication to getting that information to you. Without newspapers, democracy wouldn’t work. Thomas Jefferson said well in 1787 what we at the Rappahannock News continue to believe and what we take seriously as we strive to be worthy of...