Because Quote by Geraldine Brooks

I grew up in what I would consider a very small town - like 800 people - in West Virginia.

— Cynthia Germanotta

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense…

— Hilarie Burton

Virginia is a place that's so boring, you find friends and do cool things.

— Masego

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies,…

— Carl L. Becker

Growing up in Virginia, I was surrounded by two different cultures.

— Vidya Vox

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two…

— Sam Trammell

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used…

— Billy Campbell

I have always been 'small town.' I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years…

— Lzzy Hale

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

— Billy Campbell

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

— Oliver Luck

Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there. Because of…

— Monty Williams