Abingdon

Julian, how about for you?

One of my favorite memories, I would say, I started off in the early 90s working summer stock for this theater company called the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia.

And I was lucky enough to have this exchange situation with a theater company in Russia.

uh, Ribbings, Russia, which is like, uh, say about three hours south of Moscow.

In huge areas, bridges were down, roads cut up, homes severely damaged or destroyed, barns and fences burned or otherwise wrecked, crops trampled and cattle driven off.

Much of Richmond, Abingdon, Withville, and Bristol had gone up in flames, and Fredericksburg and Petersburg had been heavily bombarded.

Large stretches of the Shenandoah Valley were a virtual desert, thanks to the prolonged fighting and the systematic destruction carried out by Sheridan.

The section of the state east of the Blue Ridge and south of Washington, and extending to the east and south of Richmond, was an only slightly better case.

And so I started as a solo entrepreneur, have my just thought it was just going to be me by myself.

And then all these people keep coming to me and saying that they wanted to work and So then it led to me having an in-person office in Galax and then having part-time staff there to then having an office in Abingdon, Virginia, which is an hour and a half away from Galax near Damascus.

And then I have an office in Radford, Virginia, which is an hour and an office in Roanoke.

So I have about 17 therapists that work at my practice.

So how big was that school? Where is Emory and Henry?

Outside of Abingdon, Virginia.

I lived in Abingdon, Virginia.

So you're looking toward the southwestern part of the state, west of Roanoke.

The school was 1,500, 2,000 students between graduate and undergraduate.

ETSU, that campus is supposed to be haunted.

And Abingdon, Virginia, just down the road from Damascus there.

The Martha Washington Inn, and then across the street from that, Barter Theater.

Both those locations are just super active.

He's in

Abingdon.

Is he good further south?

Oh, okay.

Maybe he...

Okay, Abingdon.

My bad.

For some reason, I thought he was like Johnson City.

Investigators have never been able to prove that he planned it or that he knew it was coming.

48 Hours asked him directly whether or not he planned the murder, and he told them, "I did not." To this day, he and Sheila are still married, and after her release, she went home to Abingdon.

I really just don't understand the thought process there of... 'Cause pretty much everyone who studies this case has said, like, if it went to trial, she probably would've been found not guilty, because there wasn't really enough evidence.

Yeah.

Y- it becomes part of you and your interest, and a hobby that you research more and start to appreciate.

[Instrumental music] Oh, I remember I was in a little town called Abingdon, Virginia.

It's actually not too far from here.

And they had, in the summertime, they have a, an arts and crafts show, and they also have, like, a vintage market.

So that's been exciting.

And really interesting places like Abingdon, Virginia.

If anybody's familiar with Abingdon, they've got some pretty cool assets there.

So places like that, all the way up to regional and statewide projects.

But one of the cool things we've been working on, it's actually been the last couple of years, is with the South Carolina Department of Commerce and their rural planning initiative.