The Burning Cow Question and Other Tales from the Waterford Town
Council 1891-1909
Edited & Annotated by John M. Souders
Book Description
Two decades of town government in Waterford are distilled into
this entertaining book, omitting much of the repetitive bureaucratic
prose of the minutes themselves. To round out and enliven the portrait
of the village glimpsed in those pages, John Souders has added
background, context and occasional commentary. He has also woven
in the recorded memories of residents who experienced these times
first hand. Packed into these pages are answers to questions about
Waterford, Virginia that, in the gay nineties, one was too polite
to ask:
• Just how much manure is too much?
• What happened when the post-election jollification got
out of hand?
• How did the ladies soil their balbriggans?
• Was the livery stable really a den of sin ?
Nothing is held back in the exclusive probe into the long-hidden
files of Waterford's old Town Council.
Book Details
• Paperback: Dimensions: 7 x 8.5 inches
• Publisher: Waterford Foundation (2000)
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