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Red Clay Sunrise: Reflections on a Year in Lead VA This Yankee come-here, Virginian by opportunity and choice, met the mountain singers and the city music-makers, met the unvoiced despair of poor hope in Richmond streets and in shacks along hillside hollers, saw the new ships building in harbors where old ships once brought crazy hoping hungry pioneers up the James River towards Jefferson’s westward vision, Declaration of rising sunsets, met the patriots who fought their own chains while forging black hands to harsh fields, met the new wayfarers in Reston and Richmond, building business from nothing and hard ideas, remet the American birthplace of Virginian legacies, and found this place of red soil and lost tobacco still ready for the passion of plows, new order in a new land where many hands can still make Good Work with our one Common Weal.

Red Clay Sunrise: Reflections on a Year in Lead VA This Yankee come-here, Virginian by opportunity and choice, met the mountain singers and the city music-makers, met the unvoiced despair of poor hope in Richmond streets and in shacks along hillside hollers, saw the new ships building in harbors where old ships once brought crazy hoping hungry pioneers up the James River towards Jefferson's westward vision, Declaration of rising sunsets, met the patriots who fought their own chains while forging black hands to harsh fields, met the new wayfarers in Reston and Richmond, building business from nothing and hard ideas, remet the American birthplace of Virginian legacies, and found this place of red soil and lost tobacco still ready for the passion of plows, new order in a new land where many hands can still make Good Work with our one Common Weal.

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