Drawing of the hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, approximately 12 miles from the site of his raid at Harpers Ferry.
Stokely Gribble, Interim Dean of Libraries, Speaking at Strother Exhibit at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
Strother family members are in the background. This is the David Hunter Strother Exhibit located in E. Moore Hall for the first W. Va. Day Celebration in June of 1987.
John Stealey Speaking at the Dedication of the David Hunter Strother Collection at West Virginia University
Date:
1987/06
Description:
The exhibit was located in E. Moore Hall and was created for the first W. Va. Day. The celebration took place in June of 1987. The David Hunter Strother Collection is now housed in the West Virginia and Regional History Center in Wise Library.
'Cecil D. Eby, Jr., the biographer of Porte Crayon, is a native of Charles Town. He is a graduate of Shepherd College and holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Eby's specialty has been American literary history. His biography of David Hunter Strother appeared in 1960 under the title "Porte Crayon": the Life of David Hunter Strother. The journals of General Strother were edited and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1961 under the title, A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War. Selections from Strother's Virginia Illustrated, North Carolina Illustrated, A Winter in the South and the Dismal Swamp, along with "Porte Crayon's" inimitable illustrations appeared under the collective title, The Old South Illustrated, also published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1959. The author is presently on the faculty of Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va., where he is assistant professor of English.'
