I've just returned from a 10-day writer's residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA) in Amherst, Virginia, 20 minutes north of Lynchburg. Before the residency, I spent a few days touring the area which is most famous, from the tourist perspective, for Appomattox, 18 miles east of Lynchburg, where Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all United States forces on April 9, 1865. Fortunately for me, I a...
I've just returned from a 10-day writer's residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA) in Amherst, Virginia, 20 minutes north of Lynchburg. Before the residency, I spent a few days touring the area which is most famous, from the tourist perspective, for Appomattox, 18 miles east of Lynchburg, where Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all United States forces on April 9, 1865. Fortunately for me, I a...
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