Brief Note: From Thoreau to Confucius, via Abingdon, Virginia

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2013

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Smithfield Preston Foundation
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History

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An illustration of how relatively new computer research can unearth long forgotten, or undiscovered, stories from the past. An obscure article, published more than a hundred years ago by historian Charles Francis Adams and titled "From Thoreau to Confucius, via Abingdon, Virginia," was discovered by Jim Glanville.

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History, Southwest Virginia, Blue Ridge

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