The Virginia news letter covers many topics and news affecting Virginia resident's social, economic and political life.

This book introduces children to the important people who make our communities cleaner, safer, and better. Action shots feature people working in construction, at schools, in hospitals, fighting fires, doing police work, and volunteering.

Newsletters, minutes, and correspondence, and photographs reflect neighborhood concerns over the years. Topics include: neighborhood municipal services, school quality, traffic patterns, zoning, landscaping, house remodeling, the Arlington Forest shopping center, and Lubber Run Park. Picnics, parties, and other celebrations formed important links among the residents. Of speical interest are the association's fiftieth and sixtieth anniversary celebrations,...

After a quarter century of struggle, mill workers in Kannapolis, North Carolina won the single largest industrial union victory in the history of the South. Like most other industries in the South, Cannon Mills was sharply segregated until the 1960s and employment opportunities for African-Americans were limited to janitorial positions and other maintenance-type tasks outside the mills. As well, municipal services, the newspaper and even the police...

"Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in both elections. What changed? And what does this mean...