Battling for Manassas by Joan M. Zenzen

“The Virginia piedmont region ‘has soaked up more of the blood, sweat and tears…has bred more founding fathers, inspired more soaring hopes and ideals and witnessed more triumphs and failures, victories and lost causes’ than any other piece of the nation’s landscape, wrote Yale University historian C. Vann Woodward. ‘If suh a past can render a soil “sacred",” this sliver is the perfect venue.’ These words, written in response to the Walt Disney Company’s 1993 proposal to build a history theme park 3.5 miles from the Manassas National Battlefield Park, helped give a national perspective to a local land-use battle.”

-Joan M. Zenzen, 1998