New Motor Inn Brings Home Comforts to Winchester
Winchester opens the Darlington Motor Inn and Town House Restaurant offering 41 sleeping units over three floors with air conditioning private baths and in-room amenities. The top floor terrace hosts Peacock Alley and a Terrace Club library for salesmen students and residents with a dining room and card room adjacent to the terrace. Owner James Darlington, a Winchester native, highlights a homelike stay for visitors and locals alike.
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Winchester
Darlington Motor Inn
Town House
N. Cameron and
E. Piccadilly Sts
Cameron St
Piccadilly St
Peacock Alley
Terrace
James Darlington
Message of Hope From a Blind Veteran in Winchester
Chester Swimley age 89 who is blind due to glaucoma shares a message of gratitude and resilience. He recalls his life in public school work and the DoD, living at his birthplace, and reading his verse The World is Mine urging readers to count blessings rather than whine.
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Chester Swimley
Star
Swimley
Department of Defense
Brucetown
Summit Point
Winchester Association of the Blind
Shaw Completes Course in Refrigeration
Roy Shaw of 515 Highland Ave has completed a 116 unit home study refrigeration and air conditioning course with Air Conditioning Training Co in Youngstown Ohio. He earned a diploma as Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technician after two weeks of lab training.
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Roy Shaw
Highland Ave
Air Conditioning Training Co
Youngstown
Ohio
Shaw
Malvern mother reserves college room for granddaughter 1962
Mrs Dale Arthur McCoy of Malvern Ark wrote Ouachita Baptist College in Arkadelphia in 1944 asking a room be reserved for her daughter Donna Lynn in 1962. The college confirmed the reservation and Donna Lynn received a room when the school opened this fall.
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Arkadelphia, Ark
Dale Arthur McCoy
Malvern
Ark
Donna Lynn
Ouachita
Fall Colors Along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah Park
The Shenandoah National Park view shows colors developing slowly with Virginia creeper redder in mass, black gum deeper in color, and mountain ash orange red in small patches on Stony Man Mountain. From Stony Man Summit, maples oaks and tulip trees stand out against green slopes while sasafras and ash shift toward yellow and bronze red.
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Shenandoah National Park
Virginia
Stony Man Mountain
Skyline Drive
Stony Man’s Summit
Sassafras
Ash 1
Pitt's Point: a ghost town at Salt River junction
The settlement once stood at 1790 at Salt River and Rolling Fork in Bullitt County. Named for Fort Pitt likeness, it served as a Civil War battleground and housed Pitt's Point Academy. It had a post office until 1905 and residents left by 1940 as 50,000 acres joined Ft. Knox. Remnants now lie within an Army artillery range.
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Salt River
Rolling Fork
Bullitt County
Fort Pitt
Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Pitt’s Point Academy
Pitt's Point
Ft. Knox
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New Motor Inn
Nancy Pennypacker
Jane Crenshaw
Piccadilly and
Cameron Sts
Proving Grounds
Aberdeen, Md. Proving Grounds
Sharon Grimm
Helen Lake
Alice Carpenter
Sue Owing
Sandy Russell
Jane Holsinger
Sheryl
Fall Colors
Louisville
Winchester, VA
S. Loudoun ST
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