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Ray Cather: Farmer, Ruritan, Neighbor By Annie Young Perhaps , like me, you enjoy traveling the back roads of Clarke County. I drive along while my baby sleeps in the backseat and find places that are new to me but have a long history in the county. One hot day this summer I passed a […]
Fascinated By Fungi Just after school starts in autumn, big round puffball mushrooms pop up overnight, looking as if somebody scattered freshly baked buns in the yard. As a kid, I remember the field where the neighborhood played baseball was a prime spot for puffballs. We called them smoke bombs and checked them daily after […]
Yoga: A Practice for the Ages—and for all ages By JiJi Russell Have you ever said to yourself, “Wow. I wish I would have known/done [fill in the blank] back when I was younger”? A lot of yoga students over the years have expressed that sentiment to me when they take up the practice of […]
When Piggy Met Murph CrossFit for the Esteem-Challenged Self by Mark Andrews My mother affectionately called me Beau. To my Sicilian Grandmother, I was Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor. My dad called me Marko, cheering loudly from the stands during Friday night football games. But to the boys from my childhood neighborhood, I was […]
Mazing Around Wayside Farm Wayside Farm Fun debuts this fall with a 10-acre corn maze, pumpkin patch, hay rides, and much, much more. Story and photos by Jennifer Lee Take a flat, open piece of prime farmland. Put it next to a busy highway. Add a family that’s been farming it for over 50 years. […]
Preserving History and Restoring Nature at Cool Springs Shenandoah University’s plans for Civil War property keep the focus on low-impact educational activities Colleen Lentile On any given day, passers-by could walk by Shenandoah University’s main campus in Winchester and see students and nearby residents wandering about, using the property as their own. Those same students […]
School Board, House Candidates Meet October 7 The Virginia-focused political website Bearing Drift recently posted an interesting projection on this year’s elections in the Commonwealth: a voter turnout rate below 40 percent, perhaps as low as 37 percent. This would be a tad below 2009, and a continuation of the downward plunge in voter participation […]
Gallery Launches ‘Little Shows’ with Perry Exhibit “I love the smell,” says artist Patricia Perry of oil paint. “The buttery texture … and the richness you get with it.” Perry paints a little bit of everything—but right now she’s focusing on landscapes. It’s an apt subject given her lifelong love of travel to places […]
One Day As A Lion How cooking can change your outlook on life and health by Mark Andrews I learned to cook standing on a table chair backed against Rae’s stove. And I learned to believe that food is love. Most Sundays of my childhood were spent in Grandma Rae’s kitchen. An Italian immigrant, she […]