J. Garland Pollard
WRITING, EDITING, BRANDING, WEB CMS
Work stuff here including brands, corporate history and content, architecture, history and historic preservation, the outdoors.
- Southern Cross Magazine
- A 50th History Display
History is today, and yesterday.
Some recent writing and research for America’s most historic county, Fairfax, Virginia
Telling the story of a region
For almost ten years, I served as communications director for an Episcopal Church diocese. The Southern Cross has told that story since 1970 in print, and now electronically.
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.
Personal Posts
Personal thoughts; read my branding news on BrandlandUSA.com.
Living History at Virginia’s Mattaponi Church
KING AND QUEEN COUNTY – Mattaponi Church hardly looks like the typical rural historic Southern Baptist church. The cruciform-shaped church, with a…
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The Atom-Age Chip & Joanna, Henry & Ottalie Williams
One of my favorite architectural books is Old American Houses, 1700-1850 by Henry Lionel and Ottalie K. Williams. Henry and Ottalie Williams were…
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Singapore’s Raffles, Another Once Threatened Lee Statue
SINGAPORE – If a body politic is looking at how to move a struggling city from poverty to riches in a short…
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Modern Crooners: Some 7 Top Standards Singers
Last year, I put together a list of often-overlooked singers of American standards. It was such a joy to find new interpretations,…
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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…
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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…
Misc. 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.