Farming has never been easy. Not even for those who owned their property and its profits. But those who remember sharecropping say it was more brutal, and for some, akin to slavery without the whips.
The Virginia Historical Society is preparing to reopen its Virginia Museum of History & Culture, which has undergone an 18-month, $30 million-plus renovation that is the most extensive in the institution’s 200-year history. Virginia Museum of HIstory & Culture undergoes extensive renovation.