Whether or not you’ve heard of Andrew Lewis probably depends on where you live. Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee talks with Garrett Channell, who knows so much about this Revolutionary War figure that he’s even portrayed him for community events.
See also Randy Walker’s story on Andrew Lewis and Dwayne Yancey’s column about Lord Dunmore’s War, where Lewis achieved fame as the victor at the Battle of Point Pleasant.
Our other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast with Tom Vaughan of the Overmountain Men Trail Association.
- Podcast with Essex County Museum Executive Director Tim Manley about his county’s re-enactment of the historic Essex Resolutions.
- Podcast with descendants of Black Virginians who moved to freedom in Nova Scotia after the war (and the Canadian museum dedicated to them).
- Podcast with award-winning historian Woody Holton about “the forgotten founders.”
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South about the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.
- South also talks about Clementina Rind, the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
