Summer on the Southside brings to life the warm and sunny memories of yesteryear with unsurpassed detail by acclaimed author and historian Amy Waters Yarsinske. Including never-before-published images spanning the years from 1870 to 1965. This collection is a nostalgic view of those lazy summer days in the southside region of Hampton Roads.
Scenes abound from the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk and the counties of Isle of Wight and Southampton. They chronicle the familiar and well loved activities of summer, from fishing trips, beach outings, and picnics to ice cream cones, fireworks and baseball.
See the 1930 crowning of the Queen of the May at the Thoroughgood house. Join the crowd on Plume Street, listening to the 1931 World Series. Enjoy the 1938 children’s Lafayette Park Easter Egg Hunt. Evoking the sweet, heavy scent of summer with beautiful photographs and charming anecdotes, this books is a well-crafted history of summertime in Virginia that invites all to reminisce.
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Whether you are a newcomer to the area or a longtime resident. Summer on the Southside will appeal to anyone who has ever spent a warm summer evening sitting on the porch, listening to the frogs and watching the fireflies. From the first chapter, “Bring Forth the Flowers,” to the last, “School Bells and Fall Leaves.” Readers will enjoy this meandering journey down memory lane.
Enjoy Amy’s other treasured books on Norfolk: Winter Comes to Norfolk, Ocean View, Norfolk’s Church Street, Lost Norfolk, and the book that started it all – Norfolk, Virginia – the Sunrise City by the Sea
ISBN 0-7524-1384-8, Images of America, Arcadia Publishing
First published 30 September 1998, Copyright © Amy Waters Yarsinske,1998