From: Robert Heafner
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:25 PM
To: 'Gordon Wissinger
Subject: RE: Your letter to the Blue Ridge Parkway
Mr. Wissinger:
Thank you for replying so quickly.
I would be happy to meet with Ms. DeCesar. My home phone
number is [phone number removed] and my office number is [phone number
removed] ext [extension removed].
Before Matt Burnett died he and I met with a gentleman
from Howell's Funeral Home in Stuart, Va., and he was able to pinpoint the
location of several of the graves, but not all. Mr. Matt was on the
Parkway construction crew that moved the original gravestones.
On the Dan River several miles from the Parkway and US
58 intersection, is the remnant of an old gristmill dam that was,
according to Mr. Matt, built by the Langhorne slaves.
This is a matter close to my heart and I will assist in
any way possible in getting the monuments replaced or hopefully, as I
stated in my letter to Superintendent Brown, "erecting a monument in
this meadow that would be more than the simple rocks that once marked the
graves" in order to honor the Black experience in the Blue Ridge.
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob Heafner
bob@mtnlaurel.com |
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Late December 2001
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January 17, 2002
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