Jim Hall

Author & Lecturer

Winchester

Have thumb drive, will travel

I expected to promote The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia after publication, but I didn’t realize that promotion would take the form that it has. I thought I would go to signings, sit behind a table, and talk to those who wanted to buy the book. I’ve done that and enjoy it very much. But I’m
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Jim Hall

March 3, 2017

Archive, Fauquier County, Va. History, Fredericksburg, VA, Getting Published, Life as a Writer, Lynching, Race Relations, Rattlesnake Mountain the Book, Virginia History, Writing the Book Rattlesnake Mountain

Afro-American Historical Association, Alexandria, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Chris Brown, Cory MacLauchlin, Culpeper, David Sam, Fairfax County, Fall for the Book, Fauquier County, Fredericksburg, George Mason University, Germanna Community College, Howard Owen, Lynching, Manassas, PowerPoint, Richmond, Rick Pullen, Stafford, The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia, University of Mary Washington, Winchester, YouTube
For this old reporter, lynch coverage was embarrassing

Shedrick Thompson’s attack on the Baxleys and the discovery of his body hanging from an apple tree were big news in Fauquier County in 1932. The Fauquier Democrat, the county weekly, followed the case closely, as did daily newspapers in nearby Strasburg, Winchester, Front Royal and throughout Virginia. I found 29 stories about the Thompson
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Jim Hall

August 30, 2016

Archive, Getting Published, Life as a Writer, Lynching, Race Relations, Rattlesnake Mountain the Book, Writing the Book Rattlesnake Mountain

Fauquier County, Fauquier Democrat, Front Royal, Lynching, Negro, Shedrick Thompson, Strasburg, Winchester, Winchester Evening Star