One county in Virginia—Prince Edward County—closed its…

I am a former Kleagie of the Klu Klux Klan in Raleigh County and adjoining counties of the state, having been appainted to this…

— Robert Byrd

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should…

— Abraham Lincoln

In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose…

— Margot Livesey

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will…

— Eric Holder

I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of…

— Stephen Colletti

I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.

— Gloria Negrete McLeod

From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However,…

— Homaro Cantu

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation,…

— Denis Kearney

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

— Donavon Frankenreiter

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told…

— John Aubrey

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,…

— Abraham Verghese

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…

— Edward Abbey

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

— Michelle Pfeiffer