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Centuries of Success: Lessons from the World's Most Enduring Family Businesses. Author William T. O'Hara chronicles the colorful success stories and timeless lessons of some of the world's oldest family businesses. America's oldest family business (1638) and Virginia's oldest plantation (1613), Shirley Plantation is featured in Chapter 10, on pages 135-152. $24.95
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Plantation Homes of the James River. Bruce Roberts, former director of photography for Southern Living, presents a photographic tour of fourteen of the famous colonial Virginia plantation houses along the shores of the Lower James River from Richmond east to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Shirley Plantation is featured on pages 19-27. $24.95
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Virginia Plantation Homes. David King Gleason provides a grand tour of Virginia's distinctive plantation homes. Many of the photographs provide aerial perspectives that encompass not only the homes themselves but outbuildings and dependencies, great lawns and terraced gardens. Shirley Plantation is featured on pages 16-19. $49.95Free
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Window on the Chesapeake: The Bay, It's People and Places. Wendy Mitman Clarke, executive director of Chesapeake Bay Magazine, recognizes the generosity of the people who share their stories and a common passion for the bay. The memorable photography is the work of Mariner's Museum photographer John Pemberton. $24.95
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The Ghosts of Virginia: Volume 1.
L.B. Taylor, Jr. has traveled all over Virginia collecting ghost stories. Perhaps the most compelling legend of Shirley revolves around the ghost of a former resident and family member. For Shirley, like a number of its neighboring plantations along the James, is haunted. Aunt Pratt is featured on pages 13-18. $16.00. Also available, The Ghosts of Virginia: Volume 2, $18.00, The Ghosts of Virginia: Volume 3, $18.00
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Spooky America. Read these real ghost stories from around the country! Shirley’s ghost Aunt Pratt featured on pages 19-28. Reading level 4. Suitable for grades 2-3, $3.99
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Searching for the Franklin Expedition:
The Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter. Twenty-four-year-old Robert Randolph Carter, an 1849 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, wrote his "personal journal" in 1850-51, while serving as first office of the brig Rescue on the U.S. Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic. The expedition joines the British ships in search of British naval captain Sir John Franklin, his two ships, and 129 men of the Royal Navy who had vanished into the frozen region of northern Canada on a quest for the Northwest Passage in 1845. This is his day-by-day account. $32.95
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An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape. Edited by Carl L. Lounsbury, this glossary addresses the first two centuries of buildings in the southern U.S. Lounsbury provides definitions for various building technologies and materials from a full range of building types in all its variations. $30.00
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Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood. Every house has a story to tell! Whether you own an elaborate Victorian, cozy bungalow or cottage, ranch-style, or are part of a newer subdivision, your house and property have a unique history that is just waiting to be uncovered. Author Betsy J. Green will show you how easy it is to create a cherished legacy for future generations to enjoy. $14.95
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An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape. Edited by Carl L. Lounsbury, this glossary addresses the first two centuries of buildings in the southern U.S. Lounsbury provides definitions for various building technologies and materials from a full range of building types in all its variations. $30.00
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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Behind the “Big Houses” of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves’ environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves’ own point of view. $27.50
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