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Reprinted
with permission from the Loudoun Times-Mirror,
Sept. 30, 1998
 Author
found inspiration in Leesburg
A visitor to the elegant and beautifully maintained home called Harrison
Hall on King Street, Leesburg, would be hard put to relate it to the dark
human turmoil of "Deliverance", one of the best-known novels of this century.
But the owners of the stately 1841 structure, The
Miles/LeHane Group, have been told that James Dickey wrote the book
-- later a movie -- in the small second-story room above the entrance-way.
Dickey rented the house for his family while serving as poetry consultant
to the Library of Congress in 1966-68. "Deliverance" was published in 1970.
A century earlier, Harrison Hall embraced a trio of men who lived by
the sword more than the pen. Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall
Jackson and Jeb Stuart met here Sept. 3, 1862, on their way to Antietam,
the Civil War's bloodiest single day.
Copyright 1998 ©
ArCom Publishing Co.
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