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A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part five)
(part five of five) We conclude today my interview with Dave Ruth, who starts 2018 as the former superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield. Dave retired at the beginning of this week after a 44-year career with the National Park Service, … Continue reading
A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part four)
(part four of five) Earlier this week, Dave Ruth retired as superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield—a national park that preserves stories from Civil War campaigns in both the 1862 and 1864. But as Dave explains today, the park’s layers of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Shield, Civil War Trust, Conversation-with-Dave-Ruth, Dave Ruth, Hanover County, John Hennessy, Malvern Hill, Mike Andrus, National Park Service, Patrick Henry, Preservation, Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Rural Plains, Rural Plains Foundation, Totopotomoy Creek
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A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part three)
(part three of five) I’ve been talking with Dave Ruth, who retired this week as superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield after serving there for 26 years. During yesterday’s segment of my conversation with Dave, we talked about the important preservation … Continue reading
Posted in National Park Service, Personalities, Preservation, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Adams Farm, Bert Dunkerly, Bobby Krick, Civil War Trust, Cold Harbor, Conversation-with-Dave-Ruth, Crew House, Dave Ruth, Gaines's Mill, Henrico Country, James Lighthizer, Malvern Hill, Mike Gorman, P.I.P., Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Rural Plains, Rural Plains Foundation, Sesquicentennial, Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part two)
(part two of five) After a 44-year career with the National Park Service, Dave Ruth, superintendent at Richmond National Battlefield, retired at the beginning of this week. Dave spent the last twenty-six years of his career at Richmond, and during … Continue reading
Posted in National Park Service, Personalities, Preservation
Tagged Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites, Bobby Krick, Civil War Trust, Conversation-with-Dave-Ruth, Dave Ruth, Ed Sanders, Jim Lighthizer, Malvern Hill, Mike Andress, Preservation, property rights movement, Richmond, Richmond Virginia, Will Greene
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A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part one)
(part one of five) I recently heard Dave Ruth described as “the last of the great, old-guard superintendents.” For more than thirty years, Dave has made Richmond National Battlefield his life’s work, overseeing the park’s growth from 754 acres to … Continue reading
Posted in National Park Service, Personalities, Preservation
Tagged Bob Krick, Bobby Krick, Chancellorsville, Civil War Trust, Cold Harbor, Conversation-with-Dave-Ruth, Dave Ruth, Fort Sumter, Gaines's Mill, Independence National Park, Keith Rocco, living history, Malvern Hill, manassas, National Park Service, Preservation, Richmond, Richmond Battlefields Association, Richmond National Battlefield Park
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