Richmond in Ragtime: Socialists, Suffragists, Sex & Murder

The three years from 1909 to 1911 were
busy ones in Richmond, what with the
misadventures of Adon A. Yoder, a muckraking
pamphleteer who gets beaten up, sued and
thrown in jail; the organizing of women like
Lila Meade Valentine to fight for their right to
vote; the art of sculptor Ferruccio Legnaioli;
the novels of Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston
and James Branch Cabell; increased restrictions
against African Americans; a public spectacle
surrounding the murder trial of Henry Clay Beattie Jr.; exotic flying machines
and automobile endurance contests; and the recording of Polk Miller and his
Old South Quartette.
Join local author Harry Kollatz Jr. ("True Richmond Stories") as he revives the city
of a century ago for a tour of Richmond in ragtime.