Local librarian offers city's past through the eyes of those who lived it
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 2010 By Derrick Perkins
Local author Barb Winters first got to know the Eaches, Fendalls and Tacketts sorting through boxes of letters for the Alexandria Library’s special collections department almost a decade ago.
Donated by a distant relative of the families,' now living in Massachusetts, the manuscripts document the lives of three generations of prominent Alexandrians, before, during and after the Civil War. Preparing the letters for the city’s archives off and on for the next several years, Winters discovered she had a story in her hands.
“I decided to see if I could write it,” Winters said. “These are all true stories, not made up for publication. They didn’t write for publication, they were letting it all hang out.”
After three years of writing and editing, Winters will unveil her newly published book “Letters to Virginia: Correspondence from Three Generations of Alexandrians Before, During and After the Civil War” for a signing at the Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, December 18. . . .
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