In Season 3, Episode 4, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe considers the life of Henry Martin, a formerly enslaved man who for years worked as a janitor at the University of Virginia. Something of a mascot, something of a joke—that’s how the community treated him but underneath that was a black man just attempting to survive. Wolfe and producer Miranda Bennett interview Edwina St. Rose and Bernadette Whitsett-Hammond, local historians working to maintain the cemetery where Martin is buried and tease out the stories of Charlottesville’s black community.
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He Was Who He Needed to Be

Not Even Past is produced by Encyclopedia Virginia, an authoritative online resource about Virginia history published by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Hosted by the encyclopedia’s editor, Brendan Wolfe, it will be for history lovers but also for people who just love a good story. In each episode, Wolfe combs through the encyclopedia looking for the most interesting people and the most provocative questions.  This podcast is produced by Miranda Bennett.