ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Welcome to Isle of Wight County (Virginia) Historical Society</title> <meta content="en-us" http-equiv="Content-Language"/> <meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"/> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"/> <meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- //from BoogieJack.com function stopError() { return true; } window.onerror = stopError; --> </script> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var sound1="music/harps.mid" var sound2="music/whenjon.mid" var sound3="music/goldbergs/goldberg_aria.mid" var sound4="music/dixieland.mid" var sound5="music/goober.mid" var sound6="music/mozart-oguri_vous_diraije_maman_(c)oguri.mid" var sound7="music/piano_sonata_310_2_(c)oguri.mid" var sound8="music/yankeed.mid" var sound9="music/piano_sonata_310_1_(c)oguri.mid" var sound10="music/piano_sonata_330_1_(c)oguri.mid" var sound11="music/frgwen.mid" var sound12="music/girl.mid" var sound13="music/thejollybeggar.mid" var sound14="music/minuet.mid" var sound15="music/batlcry.mid" var sound16="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var1.mid" var sound17="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var2.mid" var sound18="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var3.mid" var sound19="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var4.mid" var sound20="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var5.mid" var sound21="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var6.mid" var sound22="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var7.mid" var sound23="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var8.mid" var sound24="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var9.mid" var sound25="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var10.mid" var sound26="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var11.mid" var sound27="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var12.mid" var sound28="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var13.mid" var sound29="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var14.mid" var sound30="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var15.mid" var sound31="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var16.mid" var sound32="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var17.mid" var sound33="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var18.mid" var sound34="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var19.mid" var sound35="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var20.mid" var sound36="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var21.mid" var sound37="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var22.mid" var sound38="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var23.mid" var sound39="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var24.mid" var sound40="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var25.mid" var sound41="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var26.mid" var sound42="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var27.mid" var sound43="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var28.mid" var sound44="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var29.mid" var sound45="music/goldbergs/goldberg_var30.mid" var x=Math.round(Math.random()*45) if (x==0) x=sound1 else if (x==1) x=sound2 else if (x==2) x=sound3 else if (x==3) x=sound4 else if (x==4) x=sound5 else if (x==5) x=sound6 else if (x==6) x=sound7 else if (x==7) x=sound8 else if (x==8) x=sound9 else if (x==9) x=sound10 else if (x==10) x=sound11 else if (x==11) x=sound12 else if (x==12) x=sound13 else if (x==13) x=sound14 else if (x==14) x=sound15 else if (x==15) x=sound16 else if (x==16) x=sound17 else if (x==17) x=sound18 else if (x==18) x=sound19 else if (x==19) x=sound20 else if (x==20) x=sound21 else if (x==21) x=sound22 else if (x==22) x=sound23 else if (x==22) x=sound24 else if (x==23) x=sound24 else if (x==24) x=sound25 else if (x==25) x=sound26 else if (x==26) x=sound27 else if (x==27) x=sound28 else if (x==28) x=sound29 else if (x==29) x=sound30 else if (x==30) x=sound31 else if (x==31) x=sound32 else if (x==32) x=sound33 else if (x==33) x=sound34 else if (x==34) x=sound35 else if (x==35) x=sound36 else if (x==36) x=sound37 else if (x==37) x=sound38 else if (x==38) x=sound39 else if (x==39) x=sound40 else if (x==40) x=sound41 else if (x==41) x=sound42 else if (x==42) x=sound43 else if (x==43) x=sound44 else x=sound45 if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer") document.write('<bgsound src='+'"'+x+'"'+' loop="0">') else document.write('<embed src='+'"'+x+'"'+'hidden="true" border="0" width="20" height="20" autostart="true" loop="true">') //--> </script> </head> <body style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url('images/brick_seamless_tile.jpg'); TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <h2 align="center">Welcome to the Isle of Wight County (Virginia) Historical Society&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img border="0" src="images/final iwchs logo01.jpg" width="100" height="102"/></h2> <table style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" border="20" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="675" align="center" height="343"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#7ea8cf" height="140" valign="top" rowspan="2" width="100"> <div id="navigator"> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="upcoming_events.html">Upcoming Events</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="GSSTF_documents.html">Cemetery Reports</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="selected_local_history.html">Selected Local History</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="bits_of_history.html">Bits &amp; Pieces of History</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="links.html">Links to Interesting Sites</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="IWCHistory.html">History, Isle of Wight County, Virginia</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="IWCHSmembershipform.html">IWCHS Membership Form</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="IWCHS_constitution.html">IWCHS Constitution</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="GSSTF_charter.html">GSSTF Charter</a> </p> <p class="housebutton"> <a href="publications.html">Publications</a> </p> </div> </td> <td height="343" valign="top" rowspan="2" width="279"> <img border="0" src="images/IWC_HHK_map.jpg" width="375" height="450"/> </td> <td width="10">&nbsp;</td> <td height="170" width="257"> <a href="boykins_tavern_history.html"> <img border="0" alt="Boykins Tavern .. click to view history" src="images/Boykins Tavern03a.jpg" width="352" height="250"/></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10">&nbsp;</td> <td height="170" width="257"> <a href="windsor_castle.html"> <font size="3"> <img border="0" alt="Windsor Castle kitchen fireplace .. click to view history" src="images/wc_fireplace01.jpg" width="352" height="264"/> </font></a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" class="quotes" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="5" width="600" bgcolor="#b5c9e2"> <tbody> <tr> <td height="75"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var quote = new Array(78) var num = Math.round(78 * Math.random()); quote[0] = "If you want more than what you've got ..<br>become more than what you are.<br><br>--- Anon" quote[1] = "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. <br><br>- Elbert Hubbard" quote[2] = "...life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. <br><br>- Grandma Moses" quote[3] = "When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.<br><br>- Alexander Graham Bell" quote[4] = "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.<br><br>- Dr. Dale Turner" quote[5] = "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. <br><br>- Frank Leahy" quote[6] = "Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' <br><br>- Brian Tracy" quote[7] = "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. <br><br>- Baslo" quote[8] = "Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come from fear. <br><br>- Dr. Robert Anthony" quote[9] = "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. <br><br>- Mark Twain" quote[10] = "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. <br><br>- John Wooden" quote[11] = "What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. <br><br>- William Blake" quote[12] = "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. <br><br>- Denis Diderot" quote[13] = "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success, but it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that's where you'll find success. <br><br>- Thomas J. Watson" quote[14] = "Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. <br><br>- Winston Churchill" quote[15] = "Its amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. <br><br>- Harry S. Truman" quote[16] = "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. <br><br>- Helen Keller" quote[17] = "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. <br><br>- Abigail Van Buren" quote[18] = "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. <br><br>- Will Rogers" quote[19] = "No stupid man ever suspected himself of being anything but clever.<br><br>- Thomas Bailey Aldrich" quote[20] = "The best way to save face is to keep the lower part of it shut. <br><br>- Nathan J. Matteson" quote[21] = "Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. <br><br>- W. Clement Stone" quote[22] = "The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. <br><br>- Lewis Mumford" quote[23] = "Look at the world through 'soft eyes.' Hard eyes distinguish and judge, noting the differences between ourselves and others. Soft eyes discern instead our commonality, the web of life that weaves itself through all humanity and nature. <br><br>- Mary Manin Morrissey" quote[24] = "One should count each day a separate life. <br><br>- Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)" quote[25] = "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. <br><br>- Helen Keller" quote[26] = "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. <br><br>- Susan Ertz" quote[27] = "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the reason why so few engage in it.<br><br>- Henry Ford" quote[28] = "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.<br><br>- unknown" quote[29] = "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.<br><br>- Ernie's Postulate" quote[30] = "The government is best which governs least.<br><br>- Thomas Jefferson" quote[31] = "Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence.<br><br>- Baslo" quote[32] = "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will be a general. If you become a monk you will end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.<br><br>- Pablo Picasso" quote[33] = "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.<br><br>- Edmund Burke" quote[34] = "In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.<br><br>- Dennis Dugan" quote[35] = "If you consult enough experts you can confirm any opinion.<br><br>- Hiram's Law" quote[36] = "Opportunities are seldom labeled.<br><br>- John H. Shield" quote[37] = "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.<br><br>- Unknown" quote[38] = "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.<br><br>- Dale Carnegie" quote[39] = "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.<br><br>- Aristotle" quote[40] = "It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.<br><br>- Honore de Balzac" quote[41] = "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.<br><br>- Hector Berlioz" quote[42] = "Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.<br><br>- Seneca" quote[43] = "Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.<br><br>- Andy Rooney" quote[44] = "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.<br><br>- Dave Barry" quote[45] = "The juvenile seasquirt swims the sea searching for a rock to cling to. When it finds a suitable spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it. It's rather like men after they get married.<br><br>- unknown" quote[46] = "USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.<br><br>- David Letterman" quote[47] = "I've always wanted to be somebody, but now I see I should have been more specific.<br><br>- Lily Tomlin" quote[48] = "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.<br><br>- Albert Einstein" quote[49] = "If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button.<br><br>- Sam Levenson" quote[50] = "I stopped believing in Santa Clause when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.<br><br>- Shirley Temple" quote[51] = "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.<br><br>- Nathaniel Borenstein" quote[52] = "I am the most anti-social person I know. But of course, I don't know anyone because I'm so anti-social.<br><br>- Derek Neitzel" quote[53] = "He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.<br><br>- P. G. Wodehouse" quote[54] = "A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.<br><br>- Henry Morgan" quote[55] = "Some people are wise and some are other-wise.<br><br>- unknown" quote[56] = "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family... in another city.<br><br>- George Burns" quote[57] = "Poor chap, he's got a PBS mind in an MTV world.<br><br>- unknown" quote[58] = "Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.<br><br>- Stephen Wright" quote[59] = "Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.<br><br>- Coronel" quote[60] = "Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.<br><br>- Will Rogers" quote[61] = "Indecision is the basis for flexibility.<br><br>- Schroeder's Law" quote[62] = "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.<br><br>- Niels Bohr" quote[63] = "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.<br><br>- Mark Twain" quote[64] = "Statistics are like expert witnesses -- they will testify for either side.<br><br>- LaGuardia's Law" quote[65] = "You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.<br><br>- Law of Retrospection" quote[66] = "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.<br><br>- Jack Handy" quote[67] = "I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.<br><br>- David Bissonette" quote[68] = "The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.<br><br>- Joe Theisman" quote[69] = "Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.<br><br>- Fletcher Knebel" quote[70] = "If you want to respect yourself, do something you will respect yourself for doing<b><b> .. Fred on Everything" quote[71] = "If you don't care where you're going . .<br>any road will get you there<br><br>-- Clyde Gartley" quote[72] = "Every decision you've made in the past brought you to where you are today. Every decision you make today affects the choices you'll have later. For a better future, make the right choices today. You're never too old and it's never too late. Find your dreams, and then take steps to make them come true. Take it one step at a time, one day at a time, and never give up. Your day in the sun will come.<br><br>-- Boogie Jack" quote[73] = "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.<br><br> -- Frank Tyger" quote[74] = "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.<br><br> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson" quote[75] = "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.<br><br> -- John F. Kennedy" quote[76] = "The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.<br><br>-- Louis L'Amour" quote[77] = "Profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. <br><br>-- Frustrated Computer Technician" document.write("<FONT COLOR='maroon' font face='Georgia','comic sans ms' font size='3'>" + quote[num] + "</FONT>") //--> </script> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="left"><i><font face="Times New Roman">Send questions &amp; comments to:<br> Lee Duncan at <a href="mailto:wleeduncan@gmail.com">wleeduncan@gmail.com</a></font></i></p> <p align="left"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <i>Problems with web site ... contact </i>&nbsp;<a href="mailto:webmaster@iwchs.com">WEBMASTER</a></font> </p> <p align="left">This Page Updated:<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%B %d, %Y" startspan -->January 26, 2012<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" i-checksum="31146" endspan --></p> </body> </html>