Richmond in Ragtime - Socialists, Suffragists, Sex & Murder (Paperback)

The three years from 1909 to 1911 were

busy ones in Richmond, what with the

misadventures of Adon A. Yoder, a muckraking

pamphleteer who gets beaten up, sued and

thrown in jail; the organizing of women like

Lila Meade Valentine to fight for their right to

vote; the art of sculptor Ferruccio Legnaioli;

the novels of Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston

and James Branch Cabell; increased restrictions

against African Americans; a public spectacle

surrounding the murder trial of Henry Clay Beattie Jr.; exotic flying machines

and automobile endurance contests; and the recording of Polk Miller and his

Old South Quartette.

Join local author Harry Kollatz Jr. ("True Richmond Stories") as he revives the city

of a century ago for a tour of Richmond in ragtime.