![]() ![]() ![]() Only one of the three doctors knew enough of the latest medical practices to even question repeating the treatment. Morbidly engrossed in the death scene of a stoic George Washington, I felt the horror of modern hindsight as I read of the extent of bloodletting used by the doctors at Mount Vernon in their well-meaning attempts to save him. Thus primed, I started chapter one, and found the book hard to put down. In another, a row of low-slung buildings and telegraph poles line a dirt road in a place I didn’t recognize called “Hells Bottom.” ![]() In one photo, five men sit or stand on the steps of a house porch under a banner bearing slogans of the American Nazi Party the house that once served as headquarters was on a street near where I live now. I was intrigued and spooked by some of the photo subjects: portraits, paintings, grave-markers, and “wicked” places of time gone-by, such as a bordello houseboat, a tobacco barn, and turn of the 20th century barrooms. ![]() The photos and political cartoons in the cover’s collage and interspersed throughout the book’s 131 pages in Wicked Northern Virginia caught my attention. ![]()
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