The author (either Mildred Netsch or Ellen Wise) of Medina, N.Y., recounts a camping trip with her friend from Whitelaw, N.Y., through Pennsylvania and down to Newport News, Va., then returning through the Shenandoah Valley, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. The volume contains two hand drawn maps of the route with mileages and stopping points, and pasted in photographs and pictures clipped from travel brochures. The author describes camping out along the way, Harrisburg; Gettysburg; Richmond; Newport News and day trips to Langley Field, Hampton Roads, Yorktown, Virginia Beach, Cape Henry, Norfolk, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Smithfield and the southside, and Portsmouth; Charlottesville, the Shenandoah Valley and Endless Caverns; Washington, D.C., Alexandria and Mount Vernon, and Arlington Cemetery; and the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial fair grounds. There are a few scattered comments on African-Americans and segregation as well as agricultural practices in Virginia which are compared unfavorably to those in New York, huckleberry-picking and chiggers.
