For this year's Thanksgiving column, I thought I might revisit a topic I wrote about nearly 20 years ago, an event that touched my heart deeply. The key to the event is Patrick Henry Hughes, a young ...
Read full article: Appalachian Power issues warning about water levels downstream of Claytor and Leesville dams The City of Martinsville has announced its next top cop. Chad Rhoads will serve as Chief ...
Welcome to the Henry Family! We’re so excited to meet your most precious jewels: your amazing students, and we promise to do our best to ensure they are well taken care of. As summer breezes on by, ...
The Patrick Henry Link Crew works with the ninth-grade students from the day they first set foot on campus and beyond. Going off to high school for the first time can be a nerve-racking experience.
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NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en route to Williamsburg to confront royal governor Lord Dunmore will be ...
In 1799, George Washington, worried about the survival of American democracy, wrote to Patrick Henry urging him to come out of retirement and run for the Virginia House of Delegates, to which Henry ...
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond to plead with Virginia’s revolutionary government to prepare for a war that he saw as inevitable. Four weeks before Lexington and ...
Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. Patrick Henry is generally treated as a second-string Founding Father. He ...