Author: Paul Wilstach
Year Published: 1929
Year Printed: 1945
Date Acquired: August 28, 2014
Where Purchased: Book Bank, Alexandria, VA
Price Paid: $4 (Marked as $8, but they were having a 50% off sale at the time)
Read Status: Read (November 28, 2014)
Notes/Thoughts
- On my second visit to the local used bookstore, I found this book and decided to start collecting books printed in the 1940s.
- I found a lot of this repetitive having just finished Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion prior to reading this, which isn't surprising as this book (and several more by Paul Wilstach) is listed in that book's bibliography. However, this was still very enjoyable as the writing style is more engaging and conversational compared to the other being closer to stereotypical boring textbook style.
- Learned that the part of the Potomac River below Great Falls (which we happened to have just visited before I began reading this book) is actually an estuary hence this area being part of the Tidewater.
- Contains an interesting discussion on the meaning of Chesapeake as “country on a great river” supposedly dispelling a myth; but then I found a very similar 2005 Washington Post article coming to about the same conclusion as if it was a new discovery. Well, sort of maybe still was in the understanding of the Native American language; but not exactly a newly discovered potential meaning, although it does seem to mean that the myth was not really effectively dispelled in the 1920s. (p. 51)
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