Saturday short takes
Go straight out and show your support
Bluegrass music lovers are familiar with at least some of The Crooked Road that winds for more than 300 miles through Southwest Virginia. There are a whole lot of crooked roads in the Appalachians, but we’re talking here about The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, wending through 10 counties, four cities and a slew of towns in mountains and foothills where the music of early Scots-Irish settlers took root and is played today. …
‘Thumbs down’ on Facebook ruling
Social media have changed communications so rapidly it can be hard to keep up. But constitutional rights such as free speech and assembly should be inviolable, no matter how an opinion is conveyed or like-minded people assemble. …
LOVE conquers all, or so they say
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney will be rallying a crowd at the Harris Pavilion in Old Town Manassas today, and the LOVE will be showing, literally: in 6-foot-high letters installed along railroad tracks nearby. They are part of a Virginia Tourism Corp. campaign, companions to a set of LOVE letters on the front lawn of the Manassas Museum that reportedly attracts a lot of people for photo ops. …
August 11, 2012 - 12:10 AM
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