Richmond in Ragtime

The three years from 1909 to 1911 were busy ones in Richmond, what with the misadventures of Adon A.

Yoder, a muckrakingpamphleteer who gets beaten up, sued and thrown in jail; the organizing of women like Lila Meade Valentine to fight for their right to vote; the art of sculptor Ferruccio Legnaioli; the novels of Elle