Dr. Jim Jordan, Author at Farmville
FARMVILLE THE MAGAZINE
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan Photos courtesy of Bob Flippen Farmville had a dark and stormy night like no other January 23, 1940. The next ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Saturday, December 26, 2020 6:00 am
FARMVILLE THE MAGAZINE
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan The Thanksgiving we celebrate today did not exist until 1621. That year the Pilgrims living in the little village of ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Friday, November 6, 2020 6:00 am
FARMVILLE THE MAGAZINE
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan Archeologists are good at finding buried things, and when things turn up where they aren’t supposed to be, well, we ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Friday, October 16, 2020 6:00 am
FARMVILLE THE MAGAZINE
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan The world of Farmville is currently upside down! The undoing of our social lives, economy, schools and our health by ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:00 am
FARMVILLE THE MAGAZINE
There’s a tale told about a judge some 200 years ago in Farmville who happened to gaze out his courtroom window one warm April day. ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Friday, April 24, 2020 6:00 am
Church & Community
When Farmville was founded in 1789, it would have been a most unusual family that did not own a number of dogs. Even two centuries ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, April 21, 2016 5:54 am
Columns
On Easter weekend 151 years ago, the Civil War was ending in Farmville. The battles at Saylers Creek and High Bridge had been fought, and ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:18 am
Church & Community
When people think of an archaeological dig, they usually picture a desert or a farmer’s field or someplace deep in the woods. But there is ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, February 18, 2016 5:37 am
Columns
Have you ever wondered why people in Farmville do rather unusual things the last few hours of December and first few hours of January? The ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, January 21, 2016 4:06 pm
Columns
Once upon a time, a long time ago, an evergreen tree was brought into a house. We don’t know exactly where that house was, but ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:10 am
Columns
The Thanksgiving holiday we will celebrate in Farmville next week did not exist until the year 1621 when Pilgrims in a little village called Plymouth, ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, November 19, 2015 2:28 pm
Columns
It is nearly Halloween and time for a scary story! Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, a very frightening event happened in ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:55 pm
Columns
I teach archaeology at Longwood University, and one of my favorite courses is “Folklore of Virginia.” My students are interested in the legends about Farmville’s ...
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by Dr. Jim Jordan, Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:09 am