Did a 16-year-old Virginia girl sneak out of her house in the middle of the night and save a Revolutionary War general from capture? Nobody knows for certain, but a lot of people think so. Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee talks with author Libby McNamee about the legend of Susanna Bolling.
See also Randy Walker’s story on the legend of Susanna Bolling.
Our other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast with historian Garrett Channell on “forgotten founder” Andrew Lewis.
- 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.
