David Reynolds | Why write?
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Because it is hard. And talk is easy. That’s one reason for these opinion pieces of writing I have done during most of my 14 years in paradise.
Search Results for Memorial Day
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A really pretty dance that we never got to see
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Lindsay Hyson was so looking forward to The Nutcracker. She was gushing when I asked her about it. “Oh, my gosh, yes. I’ve done The Nutracker four times, and I’ve loved every one,” said Hyson, the Snow Queen in the Progressions Repertory Dance Company and Old Dominion Performance Arts Studio production of the classic ballet.
Concert to honor fallen EMU alum
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The Eastern Mennonite University music department’s celebratory concert for the fall semester will include a tribute to a 2008 EMU graduate who died this summer. The concert will be held 7 p.m. Saturday in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium and will feature EMU music students and faculty performing alongside one another. “Death cannot separate,” a new piece…
Staunton: Vets speak out for Obama
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Seth Lovell and his twin brother, Eli, thought they had a creative way to pay for college. They signed up for the Virginia National Guard as high-school seniors, the idea being that the tuition assistance would take a load off their mother, who had just been diagnosed with cancer. A…
Virginia Politics: Dems, Kaine fight back against GOP flame-throwing on prayer policy
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith and Grayson Republican Del. Bill Carrico are promising a pitched legislative fight in next year’s Virginia General Assembly to overturn a Virginia State Police policy crafted in response to a ruling from the conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from the summer banning…
W.R. Marshall: The new McCarthyism of the anti-intellectual right
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Column by W.R. Marshall “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.” – Thomas Pynchon Why Pynchon? Because he appeals to the intellect. And because it’s literal. There is a screaming across the sky, a constant shrill chorus filling the air. And it has…
David Reynolds: Sowing seeds
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Column by David Reynolds Seventeen months ago a man named John came to town to sow some seeds. He was very down. At least in the polls. Few in that tough river town north of here gave him much of a chance. John was not only running out of money, he was letting staff go….
Harrisonburg: Art for RMH
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] You don’t want the new Rockingham Memorial Hospital to be all sterile-looking, do you? Of course not. So help them out by submitting your artwork for display at the new RMH. “I encourage all artists to submit their work for review. Aside from an opportunity for visibility, it is an…
Harrisonburg: EMU bids adieu to residence hall
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Item by Jim Bishop A wreath placed on the entrance door read “R.I.P.” but few tears were shed at the “funeral” for an Eastern Mennonite University icon, Oakwood residence hall, age 39-plus. Former residents of the fabled building that has housed some 2,800 men between 1969 and 2008 paid their last respects to the hallowed…
High School Football: Turnovers, sloppy play plague WHS
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Schuyler Wilkerson scored four touchdowns, three in the first half, and Waynesboro could never get things going on offense in a 39-6 Western Albemarle romp Friday night. The Little Giants (0-2) committed three first-quarter turnovers that led to Warriors touchdowns. Chet Berry’s first pass of the game was intercepted at…
