Our objective for this trip was the town of Farmville, Virginia, home to Longwood University. One of the traditions of Senior Year for American high school students is the College Road Trip—a chance for the student and parents to check out prospective universities and their programs of study. This day, Susan and I would be taking Julia to investigate Longwood University, a state-supported university in south central Virginia. Almost by definition, a college trip is a road trip—and a road trip brings with it all the attendant possibilities for new experiences and discoveries. The road would take us south to Richmond and then into the countryside of the Southside region of Virginia. It’s an area replete with the history of colonial Virginia plantations, events immediately leading to the end of the Civil War at Appomattox, and
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