Sail-powered workboat races started in 1872 when local watermen took their boats and crews out on shakedown sails before the start of the oyster season. Whenever two or more boats
Sail-powered workboat races started in 1872 when local watermen took their boats and crews out on shakedown sails before the start of the oyster season. Whenever two or more boats
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Charles Tyson Castleman
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With more in common than being dependable, poor, black Virginians, Earnest Baugh and William Ball would have but one fate. The two men likely never knew each other, but as nearly all blacks from the state of Virginia they were accustomed to provide services to white employers. However, in contrast to generations past, they would expect to be paid for their labour. Alas, in their final run, Earnest and William, like their earlier slave ancestors, would not be.
And then there were the Castlemans .
The Good, All-American Charles Tyson Castleman
Charles (b November 18, 1902), representing the sixth generation of Castlemans that lived by the West Virginia-Virginia boundary, started life on his father s farm by Charles Town WVa. Charles