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Reminiscing with Robert B. Hitchings
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BLOG INDEX
| Blog Number and Date | Title of Blog "Reminiscing with Robert B. Hitchings" |
| Blog 55, December 17, 2024 | The Old Drummond Hotel in the Great Dismal Swamp |
| Blog 54, September 25, 2024 | Cheese in Virginia |
| Blog 53, September 15, 2024 | Bird Cages |
| Blog 52, July 28, 2024 | The Oldest Photograph of Downtown Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 51, July 21, 2024 | The Story Behind Lake Drummond's Name |
| Blog 50, July 14, 2024 | The Hague Towers |
| Blog 49, June 25, 2024 | Past Local Druggist of Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 48, March 11, 2024 | A Man Named Capt. William Colley 1763-1837 |
| Blog 47, February 25, 2004 | A Man Called Paul H. O'Hara |
| Blog 46, February 25, 2024 | Jenny Lind |
| Blog 45, January 12, 2024 | The Passage of the Delaware |
| Blog 44, November 29, 2023 | Depression |
| Blog 43, November 8, 2023 | When Santa Anna Was In Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 42, August 21, 2023 | The Day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Was Shot in Dallas, Texas, Friday Nov. 22, 1963 |
| Blog 41, August 28, 2023 | The Four Frenchmen Buried in Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 40, August 3, 2023 | An Unknown Hero in St. John’s Episcopal Churchyard, Hampton, Virginia |
| Blog 39, July 27, 2023 | The Shipwreck of the Schooner Gannet, 1824 |
| Blog 38, July 15, 2023 | The Quarter Horse |
| Blog 37, July 7, 2023 | Jews in the American Revolution |
| Blog 36, February 28, 2023 | Unknown Mayor of the Borough of Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 35, January 5, 2023 | When an Egyptian Mummy Came to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1824 |
| Blog 34, December 26, 2022 | A History of Ice Skating in Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 33, October 5, 2022 | Remembering Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) |
| Blog 32, August 28, 2022 | A Man Named Dr. James Riddick |
| Blog 31, July 10, 2022 | Dinosaurs in Norfolk, Virginia |
| Blog 30, June 9, 2022 | A Man Named William Goodchild |
| Blog 29, January 21, 2022 | Talking about Apples |
| Blog 28, December 2, 2021 | Henry Epes Cake, Ensign, US Navy, 1916-1942 |
| Blog 27, November 27, 2021 | Polio and the Iron Lung |
| Blog 26, November 5, 2021 | I Remember Dan Blocker: Star of Bonanza, Television Western |
| Blog 25, November 5, 2021 | Chief Justice John Marshall’s Robe |
| Blog 24, September 30, 2021 | Interfaith in Action |
| Blog 23, September 23, 2021 | James Newton Garrett (1906-1975) |
| Blog 22, June 20, 2021 | The Hermits of the Dismal Swamp |
| Blog 21, June 13, 2021 | A Man Called Marshall Parks, Jr., & The Calypso of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal |
| Blog 20, June 6, 2021 | The Great Eastern Steamship Came to Hampton Roads, August 3, 1860 |
| Blog 19, May 16, 2021 | Up, Up and Away in my Beautiful Balloon |
| Blog 18, April 24, 2021 | Our Ancestors, We All Have Them |
| Blog 17, April 17, 2021 | Edgewater House Fire |
| Blog 16, April 10, 2021 | The Sinking of the Andrea Doria, July 26, 1956 |
| Blog 15, April 3, 2021 | A Sheep Dog Named Peggy |
| Blog 14, March 27, 2021 | A 1956 Nor'easter Surprise |
| Blog 13, March 20, 2021 | This Old House |
| Blog 12, March 13, 2021 | The W. G. Swartz Store |
| Blog 11, March 6, 2021 | When Disaster Strikes |
| Blog 10, February 23, 2021 | A Faithful Mascot Named Jocko at Fire Station #12, Norfolk, VA |
| Blog 9, February 16, 2021 | Memories of Childhood Days at City Park |
| Blog 8, February 9, 2021 | Unusual Happenings and a Ghost Story |
| Blog 7, February 2, 2021 | When the Great Caruso Came to Norfolk, Virginia, October 26th 1920 |
| Blog 6, January 27, 2021 | A Special House in Larchmont |
| Blog 5, January 22, 2021 | The Poinsettia |
| Blog 4, January 15, 2021 | Amelia Earhart Visits Hampton Roads |
| Blog 3, January 8, 2021 | When A Norfolk Man Stopped Capone! |
| Blog 2, December 25, 2020 | The Christmas Card |
| Blog 1, December 20, 2020 | Introduction |