For my special collections class, I am writing a review of an online exhibition about the home ec school at Cornell. The part about the "practice apartment" and students borrowing an orphan baby to raise blows my mind.

I also wrote about the Library of Virginia's "Radio in Virginia," about WRVA. When we were kids, in the 70s, Dad listened to WRVA while he got ready for work: farm reports, Millard the Mallard, "Rhinestone Cowboy," and school closings. Now it's all conservative chat shows.

The Post did an item on the Virginia tribes' quest for federal recognition. Ken Adams, pictured, is chief of the tribe for which I have done some research. That office is in the Sharon Indian School. Until the mid-1960s, Virginia Indians attended segregated schools, none of which went as far as high school. For two hundred or so years, Virginia's government wished them out of existence. Recognition addresses this. It's not about building casinos in remote corners of rural Virginia.

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