“As the paper had suggested, Judge Richard T. W. Duke of Charlottesville presented a request to Congress for a $20,000 contribution to pay for the monument. No funding was to be had, and when the desired monument became a reality on 21 November 1919, it was the first of four gifts of sculpture that philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire would make to his hometown and alma mater.” 104-0273 VADHR Betsy Gohdes-Baten
January 3rd. View from Water Street in Charlottesville looking north across the pedestrian mall. A low traffic day. I rolled down the driver’s side window and paused in the middle of the road.
We had a sticky snow fall yesterday in Charlottesville. The weight of accumulated snow proved too much for two hackberry limbs that shade my house in the summer.
