Ray Gaskins Essay
Scope and Contents
The collection contains an essay entitled, "The Great Blizzard of 1857" written by Dr. Ray Gaskins. The essay details the conditions faced by Southside, Virginia residents during the snow event of January 17-18, 1857. This blizzard was the largest in the history of Farmville. Gaskins provides vignettes describing the particular challenges Thomas James "T.J." Garden, a schoolteacher, surveyor, and farmer of Buckingham County, Richard Anderson Booker, Eagle Hotel owner of Farmville, and Charles T. "Bose" Edie, a student of Hampden-Sydney College, faced during the event. Edie was stabbed to death by fellow student Edward A. Langhorne, a dispute thought to be brought on by "Cabin Fever."
Dates
- 2010
Creator
- Gaskins, Ray (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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Biographical Note
Ray Allen Gaskins received a B.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech in 1964 and 1972 respectively. Upon graduation, Gaskins joined the mathematics and computer science faculty at Hampden Sydney College.
External Source:
"Gaskins DVD Collection", Virginia Tech University Libraries, https://guides.lib.vt.edu/find/collections/ray-gaskins-dvd-collection, accessed May 5, 2023.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains an essay entitled, "The Great Blizzard of 1857" written by Dr. Ray Gaskins.
Source of Acquisition
The Ray Gaskins Essay was donated to Special Collections in 2010.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Ray Gaskins Essay by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Ray Gaskins Essay commenced and was completed in June 2010.
- Title
- Ray Gaskins Essay, 2010
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Carmen Boggs-Parker, Graduate Assistant
- Date
- 2010 (CC0 1.0)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu