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From our Files for April 14, 2013
100 Years Ago — 1913 International Harvester Co. of America is advertising its International Commercial Car. The ad says modern businessmen and farmers have ceased to measure distances by miles, but by minutes instead. A farmer may say he lives...
Tags: Anglicanism, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Petroleum Industry
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Historic Garden Week: Submit beautiful outdoor photos to win state and Williamsburg tour tickets and more
"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." (Frances Hodgson Burnett) In honor of the 80th Anniversary of Historic Garden Week in Virginia the City of Williamsburg and the Williamsburg Garden Club invite you to take to...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Gardens and Parks, Human Interest
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Orlando Ridout V, architectural historian
Orlando Ridout V, a historian of early Maryland buildings who explored crawl spaces and attics for their social and architectural details, died of pancreatic cancer complications April 6 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The lifelong Annapolis resident...
Tags: Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), St. Michaels, Crofton, Arts and Culture, Painting
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P. Allen Smith: Meet nationally known garden expert in Colonial Williamsburg Saturday, April 13
Designer, gardening and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith presents “How to Get More Out of Your Garden than a Backache” during a book signing and lecture 4-5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13,in the Colony Room of the Williamsburg Lodge, Colonial...
Tags: Authors, Recipes, Television Industry
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South High Boosters to meet Monday
A meeting of the South Hagerstown High School boosters will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the media center at South Hagers-town High School. There will be many topics to discuss. Everyone is invited. Diabetes support group to meet April 17 The diabetes...Tags: High Schools, Students, Book, Diabetes, Museums
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Early Southern painting explored in landmark Colonial Williamsburg exhibit
For as long as art historians have been writing about painting in the early South, it's been common to think of the region's artists as relatively independent and even isolated figures. Many show up in the records as episodic visitors from Europe or...
Tags: Smithsonian Institution, College of William and Mary, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, Arts and Culture
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Toll students go to Washington, D.C.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) met on March 20 in Washington D.C. with a group of 70 seventh- and eighth-grade students and their chaperons from Glendale's Toll Middle School. The students were visiting during their spring break, and Schiff took time to...
Tags: Students, California State University, Northridge, Special Olympics, Adam Schiff, Adam B. Schiff
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Colonial Williamsburg offers discount to Virginians
Daily PressColonial Williamsburg is offering Virginia residents a discount on annual passes. Through May 31, Virginia residents can pay the price of a single-day admission ticket and return for the rest of the year free. The "Salute to Virginia" offer represents...Tags: Busch Gardens Orlando, Consumers, Services and Shopping
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Painting exhibit: Southern beauties on display in Williamsburg
A landmark show of more than 80 early Southern paintings will open Saturday at the art museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Curated by CW scholar Carolyn J. Weekly after years of painstaking research, "Painters and Paintings in the Early American South" is...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts
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Just Looking: 2400 Pate's Creek in The Vineyards, Williamsburg
Daily PressAddress: 2400 Pate's Creek in The Vineyards, Williamsburg Price: $875,000 Listing agent: Amerika Davis, associate broker with Liz Moore and Associates, 757-869-5533 or amerika@lizmoore.com Basics: Nestled along the Williamsburg Winery, the exclusive...Tags: College of William and Mary, Personal Service
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Keyboards enriched colonial lifestyle
Even before they opened Colonial Williamsburg's first exhibition buildings, the pioneering stewards of the Historic Area recognized the importance of music in recreating the look, sound and feel of 18th-century life in an Anglo-American setting. Two...
Tags: Executive Branch, Arts and Culture, Government, England, Entertainment
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Early choices spawned slavery in Virginia
From the beginning, the first Africans who began arriving in Virginia in 1619 faced a harder life than the white indentured servants whose labors they shared. Singled out by religion and the color of their skin, they were seen very early on as...Tags: Slavery, Jamestown Settlement, Social Issues, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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Mar 30, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 21, 2013
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Feb 24, 2013
|Column| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Feb 23, 2013
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