September 8, 2020
An Eye on Life – Langdon Henderlite
Hundreds of people make the winding trek into the mountains 20 miles above Salem to New Castle, a village of 180 souls, in search of Richmond expatriate Langdon “Red” Henderlite. They are sent by physicians at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, the Wills Eye Clinic in Philadelphia, the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville or by more than 150 other ophthalmologists throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Henderlite is an ocularist, a maker of artificial eyes, and he learned his trade during a 27-year career with Galeski Optical Co.
