[jboot]

Interesting details on your research. Thanks. I recall the herculean efforts of academia in the seventies and eighties to rehabilitate the reputations of the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Che and other Leftist icons. The Verona files did in the Rosenbergs for good. What I found interesting was that the real locals-folks who had known Whittaker Chambers-reviled the Rosenbergs. It was only out-of-towners that fawned on their memory.

On a side note, there is no historical marker, monument or placard at the old Chambers farm. The farm is in heavily wooded and hilly terrain and is REALLY easy to miss unless someone points it out to you (miss or confuse with a much more visible neighboring farm, which is what most city people who drive out here to see it do). The current owners (who I do not know) seem to like it that way.

[Fiji Hill]

Whittaker Chambers’ farm is owned by his son, and it remains a going concern, having survived keen competition, droughts, etc. However, in recent years, it has been threatened by a local water project. For more information about the farm and efforts to save it, surf over to http://www.savewhittakerchambersfarm.org/