George Washington, a Virginia native, has his obvious claims to fame. But did you know he also distilled whiskey? Produced at his Mount Vernon home in the 1790s, the rye whiskey is still in production today. In 2017, it became one of the signature drinks of the state. Washington: Coffee...
DATELINE: OCTOBER 28, 2023 – WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA One of the great challenges to this blog is finding ways to make very small species somehow sound exciting. If any of you have ideas on how I can do this, please let me know, but in the meantime, we’re going to have to suffer thro...
The period film, also starring Laura Dern, among others, brings to life Hickam’s childhood in a coal mining town in West Virginia against the backdrop of the Cold War. —AFPhoto : Everett “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003) Turtlenecks! Beaches! Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Keanu ...
Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start to summertime, and also the weekend many people open their pools for the hot weather season. During pool opening, it's common to add water to restore it to the proper level. However, did you know that you shouldn't submerge the hose below the...
When is Virginia Tax-Free Weekend? Aug. 2 at 12:01 a.m. to Aug. 4 at 11:59 p.m. in 2024. Virginia didn’t have a tax-free holiday in 2023, due to the original law expiring. A new law now guarantees to for the next five years. ...
What does it mean when you put a dryer sheet in your mailbox? There's actually a very good reason and your postal worker may thank you for it. As the summer weather remains warm wasps are looking for places to build nests. You'll find them on the eave of your home, to your door...
Virginia: Veritas School Noel V. Baebler // Shutterstock Virginia: Veritas School The Showtime drama “Homeland” filmed in a number of cities during its nine-year run, and in season seven, the city of Richmond, Virginia, stood in for Washington D.C. For instance, in the season seven pr...
Then we met up again at Tanis & Robb’s son’s wedding – Tanner and Kelly – near Washington, DC, on 13 June 2022, in a lovely old barn called The Sweeney Barn, Manassa, Virginia. Even a contingent from Europe came. But this is not about how lovely and wonderful was the wedding ...
It was somewhat calculated that this time we would do this in the summer so there were no weather complications. Except I miscalculated for the time that X had to go get his vials of frozen sperm and have to run them from storage in Virginia to the lab in Maryland when it was 110 ...
After getting our “RV legs” traveling down the east coast (via Virginia for a visit with my brother Eric and the Josie Smith family), and spending Christmas and New Year’s with Baba in Jupiter, Florida, we head out. We take our time getting through Florida. We head west toward the...