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(Snp068) Louis Graves Interviewed By Reed Engle, Transcribed By Joy K. Stiles, Louis W. Graves
(Snp068) Louis Graves Interviewed By Reed Engle, Transcribed By Joy K. Stiles, Louis W. Graves
Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection
Records an interview with Louis Graves, who grew up in Madison County, Virginia, not far from the site where President Herbert Hoover would construct a rustic retreat known as Rapidan Camp, and later as Camp Hoover. Hoover paid for the project out of his own funds and the camp was constructed by a detachment of U.S. Marines as a military exercise by March, 1929. Louis Graves recalls speeches given by President Hoover and other dignitaries in Madison, Va., as part of a day-long Hoover Day celebration on August 9, 1929. Graves relates that more than 10,000 people attended the event, …