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Customer Review: For those who want an indepth and historically interesting book to help explore the Shenandoah Valley area, this is the book to buy. It has a number of short (up to two hours) car tours complete with maps, historical facts and places of interest to visit or drive by. I highly recommend this book to... more info
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Customer Review: This is probably the best in the series of the interviews with former slaves done in the 1930s-in this case Tennessee. Here we get info on a long-forgotten lynching that tookplace in Nashville in 1892 and an early look at life at Fisk University. What makes these stand apart from the others is the... more info
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