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Virginia's bird fauna comprises 422 counted species, of which 359 are regularly occurring and 214 have bred in Virginia, while the rest are mostly winter residents or transients. [139] Water birds include sandpipers, wood ducks, and Virginia rail , while common inland examples include warblers, woodpeckers, and cardinals, the state bird .
Cynthia Eppes Hudson (born 1959), Nottoway County, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia; Mary Virginia Jones (born 1940), Prince William County, mechanical engineer [35] Louise Harrison McCraw (1893–1975), Buckingham, author and executive secretary of the Braille Circulating Library; Doris Crouse-Mays (born 1958), Wythe County, labor leader
Nancy Ann Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969) [2] is an American former figure skater.She won bronze medals at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Winter Olympics, silver medals at the 1992 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, as well as the 1993 US National Figure Skating Championship.
An exhibition, Queena Stovall, Artist of the Blue Ridge Piedmont, was mounted in 1974–1975 and traveled to Lynchburg College, in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 6–25, 1974; to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, January–March, 1975; and to the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York ...
This is a list of notable Appalachian Americans, including both natives of the Appalachian Region and members of the Appalachian diaspora outside of Appalachia. . Appalachians are an unrecognized demographic of the United States Census Bureau, but due to various factors have developed a unique culture
John Blair was born in Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, in 1732, to Mary (Monro) (1726–1768) and her merchant and politician husband, John Blair.They had a large family, with ten or twelve children by various accounts, and John was the fourth child, and the eldest surviving son.
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In 1964, Jack Moss's work took the family to Waynesboro, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Patricia Moss appreciated the rural scenery and began portraying it in her art. She was particularly drawn to the Amish and Mennonite people who farmed in the countryside, and portrayed their figures in iconic ways. In 1967 she had a one-person museum ...