Images of America: Henry County Virginia Book Cover
Continuing this week with blogs about older books or books in progress. My next photo book will be on Henry County Virginia.
Click here to see the cover. www.freestateofpatrick.com/henrycocover.pdf Sitting behind the Bassett Bengal is Pam Akers Armstrong, wife of Virginia Delegate Ward Armstrong, who supplied the information for the photo. Pam was a Senior and that year we cheered the Bassett Bengals on to win the Piedmont District Football Championship and were regional runner-ups under Coach Wayne Turner at John D. Bassett High School. This is a photo of the John D. Bassett High School Varsity Cheerleaders for the school year 1970/71. This photo was taken during the 1970 Bassett Christmas Parade. The names of the girls in the photo (all maiden names and classes) are: Front seat row L to R- Lynne Joyce ’71; Pam Akers ’71; and Carol Anthony ’72 Sitting directly behind Lynne Joyce but face is blocked is Myra Terry ’71 (Captain) Back row sitting across rear seat L to R – Clarke Stanley ’72 who is waving and Co-Captain; Vickie Price 72’; Betsy White ’72; Genette Hite ’72 Sitting directly behind Clarke Stanley but also blocked is Cindy Fulcher ’71. I hope the book of 200+ Henry County Virginia photos will be out in March 2009. At present it looks like chapters will be on Bassett, Fieldale, Martinsville and Henry County. This photos are from people who brought pictures to the Bassett Historical Center and from the collection of the library. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the Building Fund for the $800,000 expansion of the library.
