Here comes Hazzard Nation for a two-day get-together in a beautiful field in Rappahannock County. We are calling it “Hazzard Homecoming.” So far, we have visitors coming from 36 states and from as far away as Scotland and New Zealand. If you are new here, it is hard to explain, but basically it will...
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As the nation commemorates the Civil War Sesquicentennial, Ben Jones suggests that national mythologies "have completely washed out certain realities of the decades leading up to that terrible conflict," and presents some discussion points.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I was not only bemused, but downright astonished at the screed which Paul Hagstrom wrote regarding his distress at having to travel the wonderful treasure that is Gid Brown Hollow Road.
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The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, at the behest of AT&T, will vote at its March meeting on the tabled motion to place a cell tower at the Rappahannock High School. In a surprise move, according to the Rappahannock News, “an alternate site for the proposed 199-foot monopole at the high school had been...
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“Get your old Kodak out or maybe Rachel’s new digital high definition thing that pops ‘em right up” The old man on the porch in the late winter sun. Galluses like no one wears anymore, old stains of chaw across the chest pocket flaps. Buzzards circling over Mary’s Rock. “They’re waitin’ on me,” he...
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All hail the things we can’t do without: the ice man, the “church key,” carbon paper, telegrams, spats, eight-track players, the outhouse, the truss, cell phones, whitewall tires and Wildroot Creme Oil. These were all things that people simply could not do without at one time or another; the latest craze, the badly needed...
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