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Author and Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of his first school, where his father was principal. This book is used to raise money for the Perry Family Scholarship that gives money to a Patrick County High School Senior each year.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry reflects on his mentor Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. of Virginia Tech, a renown Civil War Historian.

Continuing in his seven deadly sins series, author Thomas D. Perry tells the story about envy and revenge.

The White Sulphur Springs, North Carolina, was once a the site of a resort hotel. Today, the historic area is preserved and interpreted along the Ararat River, just outside Mount Airy, North Carolina, the basis for the fictional town of Mayberry from the Andy Griffith Show. The White Sulphur Springs was going to be the site of a residential community for houses and rental cabins. Today, it is a wedding venue on the banks of the Ararat River at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This book explores the history, the present status of the site and the development combining the simpler life ...

Thomas D. Perry tells a story about a mythical monster that lives in Lynch Hollow in Ararat, Virginia, where he grew up. Told to Perry as a teenager, he weaves a story that is part myth and part based on a real life murder and vigilante death of the accused murderer.

This fictional tale is about Betty Scott, who wanted to be a witch. Her wish came true over two hundred years ago when she encountered Lucifer, the devil himself, on Ahart Ridge in western Patrick County, Virginia. Jake Ahart, a local farmer, killed what he thought was a majestic white deer that turned out to be Betty Scott, who had shape shifted into the deer. The story ends tragically when the power of the witch is transferred to Jake's son. The book shares the history of witches coming from Scotland to Jamestown to Willis Gap in Virginia.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart and his first sweetheart Elizabeth Perkins "Bettie" Hairston in this book on the history of Patrick and Henry Counties in Virginia in the antebellum period and through the War Between The States. Using Stuart's letters to Hairston, Perry tells the story of their romance and their lives afterwards. The story comes forward to the piano she played and he sang with her in the days before a war torn this nation apart.

Continuing his series of books about the history of his boyhood home, Patrick County, Virginia, Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Notley Price Adams, who was accused of arson in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, went through four criminal trials before finally being pardoned by the Governor of Virginia, John Letcher. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this book tells the story of a man and the times he lived.

A short biography of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart concentrating on his Christian faith.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of his friend David Minter of Ma,rtinsville, Henry County, Virginia, in a life that saw war in Korea, family tragedies and share a military heritage that spans generations of one family in the United States of America. David is an ordinary man, who along with his family gave extraordinary service to this country.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry takes over two decades of Bassett Heritage Notes, the newsletter of the Bassett Virginia Heritage Festival to tell the history of the Henry County town. Proceeds from this book will go towards the scholarships given by the Stanleytown Ruritan Club, who run the Bassett Heritage Festival.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the history of Henry County Virginia through photographs

Published in September 2010 and revised in 2013, Historian Thomas D. Perry tells the history of the town he was born in through two hundred images. Chapters on Andy Griffith, Donna Fargo, "Dinky" Railroad, and the many people of Mount Airy along with chapters on granite and the author's family give a snapshot view of the town so associated with Mayberry.

Set in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Tom Perry tells the story of David and Annette, childhood sweethearts who grew up in the same church only to be seperated by decades only to discover each other again in their fifties to find love and romance.

Principal and teacher Erie Meredith Perry passed away on December 31, 2020. His family has set up a scholarship for Patrick County High School students to attend college to honor Erie Perry’s nearly thirty years in education. Donations can be mailed to Perry Family Scholarship at P. O. Box 11, Ararat, VA 24053. Proceeds from the sale of this book by Erie's son Tom Perry will be donated to the scholarship.

Images of Bassett Virginia continues the series of books of photos and stories on communities in Henry County Virginia in Laurel Hill Publishing's History and Memory Series.

Author and Historian Thomas D. Perry started the Perry Family Scholarship in 2021 when his parents died within two months of each other. Since then eight students from Patrick County High School in Stuart, Virginia, have received $500 each. This book is divided into three parts. In Part One Perry writes about his mother, Betty Jane Hobbs Perry, who gave Tom his love of books and history. In Part Two Perry writes about his father, Erie Meredith Perry, an educator for thirty years in Patrick County. In Part Three the student recipients write about the topic of their choosing from the Civil ...

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the history of Martinsville, Virginia, through photographs.

Historian Thomas D. Perry presents history and memories from his home county of Patrick County Virginia

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Everett M. Bennett of Henry County Virginia from his youth at Spencer-Penn School to his career in World War Two and Korea including being on the cover of Life Magazine. He returned from two wars to work at the Rives Road Grocery in Martinsville.