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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Al Groh was getting ready for what turned out to be a nailbiter with Connecticut when he saw something on the TV that worried him about another game that his Virginia team had on the schedule. “We had a later game the day that Virginia Tech was playing Duke –…
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Story by Jim Bishop They were born in the Depression, grew up during World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War and Vietnam. All moved from more rural to professional settings and made major impacts on the Mennonite Church, its institutions and the larger society. Reflections and stories from these 16 educators and church…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I go into any discussion of the book industry presuming that sales are down, down, down, reader interest is even worse, the prospects for improvement are dead in the water. And then I talk to my friend the horror author Matthew Warner, and I start to get depressed. “I’m trying…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] For three-plus hours that October night, it had seemed that Virginia Tech had played its way back into the national-title picture with a convincing win over then-#2 Boston College. And then … “Boston College has scarred me for life. I don’t celebrate a win until it’s zero-zero-zero reading on the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You can be a mentor – yes, I’m talking to you. “A lot of people think they aren’t adequate, that they can’t be a mentor. Well, let me tell you something. When I was a kid, I had a mentor who was my teacher – and I never thought of…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Being somewhat long of tooth myself, I joined the holiday throngs to see “No Country for Old Men” with some caution. Afterwards, I knew it was no country for anybody else, either.
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Essay by Donna Miller I often wonder why people want to live so close to each other. I grew up in the mountainous area of Bath County, and our closest neighbor was about one-half mile away. My favorite spot on our property was a wooded area, partially cleared, with a creek running through it. The…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Cathy Campbell wants to learn more about how African-Americans in rural Virginia facing tough end-of-life decisions go about making those decisions – so she’s been hitting the road a lot lately to ask folks to share their wisdom.
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I complain a lot in this column – really, a column should be about 95 percent complaining, and 5 percent finding tearjerking stories to show folks that the writer has a heart. But I digress – because this is one of the 19 of 20…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Kaine knows how important agriculture is to the Virginia economy. CNBC doesn’t – but we can forgive them. I mean, they’re based in New York. Ahem.
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