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Over Time: Riches to Rags

Barclay Rives describes his family as being on a riches to rags trajectory —he’s directly descended from politicians and landowners who were part and parcel of the Commonwealth’s Colonial History. Barclay recently published A Country to Serve, a biography of his many-times-over great grandfather, William Cabell Rives. The book, Barclay says was a twenty-year long labor of love  —and research.

 

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Barclay Rives - Web EXTRA

  NOTE: This conversation is an encore broadcast which originally aired September 19, 2014.

Marth Woodroof has retired from WMRA and is now spending her time as a full-time writer and published author.