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We want to hear from you!  If you would like to share your news and memories, please send an email request to the address below, and we will be happy to add to our guest book. All submissions are reviewed and any inappropriate content will be deleted or not posted at all. We hope our guest book grows and grows with fond memories, ancestry information and comments (especially compliments) about our projects, the museum and about your experiences in our little community.Thanks!

 

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Dante Lives On
PO Box 336
Dante, VA 24237 
 
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Here's a treasured memory from one of our guests. Please leave your mark for others of enjoy and cherish.

 

Brenda Phillips   

Maiden Name: Whicker

From: Castlewood, VA
20 Yrs in Dante, VA    (Straight Hollow)
Parents: Nova, Louie Whicker
Siblings: Nell June, Bobby Gene, Rosa (Peggy), Dallas (Buddy), Linda Ruth
Spouse: Ira (Buddy) Phillips
Children: Donna Joyce (Phillips) Sifford , Sonja Denise Phillips, Shane Allen Phillips, Brad Andrew Sifford, Brian Matthew Sifford, Chase Logan Phillips, Whitley Jo Phillips and Gabriel Allen Phillips
 
"I guess what I can remember most about growing up in Dante (Straight Hollow) was the way every one seemed to help each other. I can remember we lived in a big two story house, (we lived down on the track) and my Mother (Nova) decided the house was too big for her too keep up, there was only Mom, Linda, and myself at home then.

We decided the top floor of the house would come off. Some of the men came together to do the work: Uncle Bill Castle, Everett Dishman, Uncle Henry Castle, the Fields men, my uncles, Autie Wallace, Peg Wallace, Pinky Wallace, plus many more. The women helped too, with all their wonderful food, they would bring lunch, and dinner and set the food up on tables that were made from sawhorses!  Us children would run and play Hide-n-seek, catch June bugs, and as it grew dusk we would chase lighting bugs.


I'm proud to say I grew up in a place that was a caring community"
Brenda Joyce Whicker Phillips