Jim Hall
Author
Language
English
Description
This true crime history reveals the harrowing story of a black man brutally murdered by a lynch mob in 1932 Virginia. In 1932, a black man was found hanging on Rattlesnake Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia. Though a mob set fire to his body, officials were able to identify him as Shedrick Thompson, who had been wanted for the abduction and rape of a local white woman. Some claimed Thompson killed himself, framing his gruesome death as the final...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When romance was met with murder…
Arthur Jordan and Elvira Corder were young and unafraid, but their love was doomed. He was black, she was white, and this was Virginia in 1880. When Elvira became pregnant, the couple fled Fauquier County to live in Maryland. But her father found them and recruited neighbors to help kidnap them. Four nights later, a mob dragged Arthur from the county jail in Warrenton and lynched him. Elvira, taken to a hotel in...
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
By watching Tom Law you'll learn how to square up and secure an opening window in minutes, set and seal an insulated glass unit in a custom-built frame, shim and plumb a prehung exterior door so it won't sag, size an interior door blank to fit within a site-built frame, make a simple template to align and rout hinge mortises. Learn how to eliminate drafts and to prevent sticking.