J. Garland Pollard
WRITING, EDITING, BRANDING, WEB CMS
Work stuff here including brands, corporate history and content, architecture, history and historic preservation, the outdoors.
Samples:
Southern Cross Magazine
A 50th History Display
Guide to the Episcopal Brand
My new manual for Episcopal Churches, helping them, step-by-step, to show their members how to improve their marketing, from website to follow-up, in easy, easy steps. Published for the Diocese of Southwest Florida, it is available free to all Episcopal Churches. As the nation’s oldest church denomination, the Episcopal Church has a historic legacy, yet also has modern appeal. Take a read by a free PDF , or printed version below.
Recent Posts
Personal thoughts and posts on planning, family & history, etc.
Williamsburg’s 150 Years of Fighting Off Fenced off Streets
WILLIAMSBURG – Colonial Williamsburg is at it again with the notion that somehow it can cordon off a public street, charge admission,…
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The Useful Rural Economics of Dr. Wilson Gee of UVA
My father’s discussions of life at the University of Virginia in the mid 1950s often involved parties and social life, and the…
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Radio Orange, Time Travel, and Great Radio
ORANGE – Back in the early 1980s, I went to boarding school in the Virginia country. As typical of so many 14-year-olds,…
Ivan Illich’s Convivial Legacy
Austrian thinker and Catholic priest Ivan Illich, largely forgotten today, predicted and legitimized a critique of capitalism and socialism that is still relevant.…
Texas History With the Thaddeus Bell Family Scrapbook
My window into the history of Texas in the late 19th century and early 20th century is a scrapbook from my my…
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Tell Me What Is Right; Persistent Negative Views Hurt Cities
When locals are negative about the economic future of their own towns, watch out. The negative stories and “memes” that are told…
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Sensible Approaches to Passenger Rail in the U.S.
Every few years, federal, state and local planners lay out outlandish plans for high speed rail networks that never seem to go…
Practical Proven Railbuses Often Overlooked
Between Norfolk and Virginia Beach, my late grandmother remembers taking a railbus shuttle that ran on the now abandoned tracks between the…
The Record of Rich Conaty, New York Broadcaster
NEW YORK – Rich Conaty, one of the national treasures of American music history, died Dec. 30, 2016. Conaty, 62, was perhaps the…
Rural Houses, Real Challenge, Royal Opportunity
The depopulating of America’s countryside is an odd trend in an era of locavore foodies, environmental consciousness and a supposed interest in…
Anglican Devotionals in Ralph Wormeley’s Colonial Virginia Library
There is an unfortunate notion that the elite leaders of colonial Virginia were somehow deists or agnostics, and that they operated in a sort…
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CIA Declassifies a Norfolk, Virginia Garden Dedication
NORFOLK – Recently, the Central Intelligence Agency declassified a school garden re-dedication from 1979 in Norfolk, Virginia, as part of many hundreds of other…
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The History of the Southgate Lohman Map of Eastern Virginia
VIRGINIA BEACH – The recent edition of Virginia Living magazine includes a feature on the history of the Southgate Lohman map of…
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Post-Colonial Structures Offer Unique Benefits
The subject of Brexit and the European Union offers an enormous opportunity for the U.K. and Commonwealth, despite the obvious anxiety of…
Honeywell, Star Wars and the Future
ELLENTON -Heading into get coffee at Dunkin Donuts, I decided to go in, rather than drive through. In Florida, all morning fast…
The U.S., Tangier & Those Chinese Islands
TANGIER, VA – If ever there were an issue that would let us see where the United States is compared to China,…
Modern Crooners & Standards List 2016
Like David’s Psalms, America’s standards are our gift to the world. My father, who saw many a great standard sung at the…
Edward Bagby of King and Queen, Killed Battle of Crater
In a box of family photographs, I have what is perhaps the only daguerreotype image of my cousin Edward Bagby, who died…
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Telling the story of a region
For the last nine years, I have been communications director for an Episcopal Church diocese. The Southern Cross has told that story since 1970 in print, and now electronically.
History is today, and yesterday.
Some recent writing and research for America’s most historic county, Fairfax, Virginia
More Posts and Stories
History, Historic Preservation and Time
St. George’s College
Two decades before Britain passed the Balfour Declaration, the Church of England built St. George’s.
Pilgrims in Jerusalem
At the Mount of Olives, pilgrims from around the world converges at the famous site.
Past and Present
At Capernaeum on the Sea of Galilee, step into the daily life of a Roman city, uncovered today.