We’ve drawn together a range of resources from our own programs, publications, and partners that spotlight local experiences in Rockbridge and Augusta Counties, and others that cue you to a wide range of online reading and media resources regarding the ‘Spanish Flu’, and other epidemics in history. As you read and reflect, please do communicate with us in your own right: particularly regarding any family or community histories from that era that you may personally know through stories told, photographs preserved, memoirs or scrapbooks that illuminate those trying times, a century ago, now fresh in new light.
Click on these hotlinks for:
“The Great Rockbridge Flu Epidemic of 1918-1919 in Rockbridge County” (by VMI microbiologist & immunologist Dr. Eileen Hinks: 2005 RHS Program, published in RHS Proceedings Vol.13)
“The Flu of 1918: Attack on the Homefront in Augusta and Staunton” (by Augusta County Historical Society President Nancy Sorrells & Caitlyn Alexander, Augusta County Historical Society Bulletin, 2018)
“The ‘Rockbridge Flu’: RHS Looks Back, a Century Ago” (by RHS Executive Director Eric Wilson, Lexington News-Gazette, April 8, 2020)