Ray Gaskins Essay

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Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
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560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Preferred citation:

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Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Gaskins, Ray
Abstract:
The collection contains an essay entitled, "The Great Blizzard of 1857" written by Dr. Ray Gaskins.
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Ray Gaskins Essay, Ms2010-046, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains an essay entitled, "The Great Blizzard of 1857" written by Dr. Ray Gaskins. The essay details the conditions faced by Southside, Virginia residents during the snow event of January 17-18, 1857. This blizzard was the largest in the history of Farmville. Gaskins provides vignettes describing the particular challenges Thomas James "T.J." Garden, a schoolteacher, surveyor, and farmer of Buckingham County, Richard Anderson Booker, Eagle Hotel owner of Farmville, and Charles T. "Bose" Edie, a student of Hampden-Sydney College, faced during the event. Edie was stabbed to death by fellow student Edward A. Langhorne, a dispute thought to be brought on by "Cabin Fever."

Biographical / historical:

Ray Allen Gaskins received a B.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech in 1964 and 1972 respectively. Upon graduation, Gaskins joined the mathematics and computer science faculty at Hampden Sydney College.

External Source:

"Gaskins DVD Collection", Virginia Tech University Libraries, https://guides.lib.vt.edu/find/collections/ray-gaskins-dvd-collection, accessed May 5, 2023.

Acquisition information:
The Ray Gaskins Essay was donated to Special Collections in 2010.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Ray Gaskins Essay commenced and was completed in June 2010.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard