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A poem written by "VT Dad" and a handwritten note addressed to President Steger.

Article by Mrs. W. D. Altman from the July 1, 1976 Montgomery News Messenger Bicentennial Edition.

Article by Mrs. W. D. Altman from the May 30, 1957 Montgomery News Messenger.

A handwritten note and poem titled "Young People in Blacksburg Virginia" by an anonymous indiviual who sent these to Virignia Tech following the April 16, 2007 tragedy. 

A poem handwritten in silver ink on a red card by an anonymous individual.

This untitled poem by an anonymous individual was originally left with five posters on campus within the first few weeks of the tragic events on April 16, 2007.

Notes for a talk given by Miss Mary Apperson at Blacksburg High School in 1944 as reprinted in the Montgomery News Messenger Bicentennial Edition, July 1, 1976.

Article from the Virginia Tech Engineer by Howard Shaeffer Avery, VPI class of 1928.

A typed poem by Barbara Ledbetter and an accompanying handwritten note sent to Virginia Tech following the tragic events of April 16, 2007.

Article in the Montgomery News Messenger about the Junior Women's Club in Blacksburg, Va.

List of Mayors who have served the Town of Blacksburg from 1871 to the present.

Ralph M. Brown's extracts from the V.P.I. Historical Index, 1872-1938.

VPI President Julian Burruss comments on the large numbers of students joining the United States Army in the February 25, 1943 Virginia Tech.

Handmade card and poem titled "A Child Loaned" from the female inmates of Cambridge Springs Prison.

A typed poem titled "I Planted a Rose: A Tribute to the Hokie Nation" written by Charlie McCauley with an accompanying handwritten letter to Debbie Day. The handwritten letter has been cropped in this exhibit to protect certain personal information…

An untitled poem and handmade card sent by the Christiansburg Primary School.

An article by Thomas N. Conrad (V.A.M.C. president from 1882 to 1886) from the Blacksburg Post, December 10, 1896.

An article in the Blacksburg Home News, September 9, 1916, describing the state of the town.

Untitled inspirational speech aimed at students within the geology program.

A comedic play in two acts about the social and family aspects of recruiting a new professor.

Chapter one of a fictional crime drama about marijuana being discovered on a college campus.

List of marriages in 1893 by Rosanna Croy Dawson.

List of accidents and odd occurences by Rosanna Croy Dawson, from her diary, "Blacksburg in 1898."

List of people who moved and where they moved to.

Records of what Dawson preserved in 1898 and when.

Records of planting and other work done in the family garden in 1898.

Records of household quantities of flour and cornmeal.

Records of household quantities of lamp oil.

List of deaths in 1893.

List of births in 1898.

List of deaths in 1898.

List of marriages in 1898.

Records of events at the church in 1898.

Records of the work Will Washington did for the Croy Dawson family in 1898.

Dawson on Tilda Gray in her 1890 diary.

Records of butter in the household in 1898.

Records from 1898 of shopping and household visits.

Record of the building of the Alex Black House in Blacksburg, VA.

Record of small events in the life of Rosanna Croy Dawson in 1898.

Record of gifts received in 1898.

A poem titled "Incident at Virginia Tech" by Derek Wilson and his accompanying letter addressed to Nikki Giovanni. This is one of the two versions Wilson sent to Virginia Tech following the tragic events of April 16, 2007.

A lengthy recollection of his father's Blacksburg from the 1920s to the 1940s by Dr. Ronald B. Dietrick.

Keith Furr recalls life in Blacksburg during the 1960s in an email to Laura Katz Smith in 1996.

Excerpts from the 1935 article by William Edward Garnett, rural sociologist.

Letter in the April 20, 1932, Montgomery News Messenger about the town spring.

A typed poem by H.K. Grave titled "Thirty-Two."

Rocket Navigation by Samuel Herrick, published while he was a member of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This book, written by Herman Hueg in 1892, is a recipe book that focuses on baking. The book gives advice on and illustrates baking techniques.

Volume 31, number 7 of Spectrum, a magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. This issue is titled "The Moon Landing: a 25th Anniversary Perspective."

A poem sent to Virginia Tech for the first anniversary of the tragic events on April 16, 2007. The sender only is identified as "J.W. Class of 2009."