There was "no place
so strong, so pleasant, and delightful in Virginia, for which we called
it None-such." So wrote Captain John Smith about the site he chose in 1609
when he established the first English settlement near the falls of the
James River.
When the Europeans came to
America they brought the Old World changelings with them, who thrived on
the powerful dreams forged by the hopes of settlers flocking to the New
World. Hopes for riches, freedom, land, glory, and gold were felt with
such fervor that the Old World changelings could not want for glamour and
new powerful chimera. It is a deep shame that their newfound glory also
reflected their dreamers' deeds of destruction, that they drove the nunnehi
from their glens.
This is a chronicle about the
Richmond of the Changeling world. The theme is "nostalgia", for our city
is very much a bastion of people clinging to the past. However, the nostalgia
is not limited to our own history, for those who lived here before we came
already possessed this land and carried their own proud traditions. We
are a people lost in our desire to save the bygones, to regain our childhoods,
to preserve our heritage. Many of our memories of the past are but dreams,
for often we overlook the tragedies and crimes of the past that we may
spare ourselves the pain.
All Material is © 1997 Conrad
Hubbard.
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Conrad Hubbard, Editor
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