Monday, December 17
With new facilities, Mount Vernon offers enhanced insight into first president's life. |
Monday, December 10
In D.C.'s shadow, Alexandria has thrived by staying in touch with its past. |
Hidden gem ALEXANDRIA When the family running Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary closed its doors in 1933 after more than 140 years in business, it left everything. |
Monday, November 19
Unspoiled barrier islands are rare gems of East Coast wilderness. |
Hidden gem CAPE CHARLES When many people think of the Eastern Shore, Misty of Chincoteague comes to mind. Maybe NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Perhaps the acres and acres of farmland. |
The barrier islands of the Eastern Shore are difficult to get to, and even a day trip can be costly with guides charging per-person and per-hour rates. If you can't visit the islands themselves, a trip to the Barrier Islands Center might be the next best thing. The museum, constructed on the poorhouse farm of Northampton County, details the rich history of the islands and the life and times of those who lived there. |
Monday, October 29
Top 10 Places to See Know as 'America's Favorite Drive,' the Blue Ridge Parkway is 469 miles of gently twisting roads and unrivaled scenery. |
Hidden gem Six miles off the Blue Ridge Parkway, visitors can find the highest vertical-drop cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi River. |
The Blue Ridge Parkway between Mileposts 105.8 and 112.2 east of Roanoke will be intermittently detoured and closed for bridge repairs for the next 13 months, beginning Thursday. Signs on the parkway will alert motorists to changes along that section, between U.S. 460 and state Route 24. Similarly, a 51-mile section of parkway in North Carolina will be detoured for the month of November for tunnel repairs. The section, east of Asheville, is between Mileposts 382.5 and 330.9. |
Monday, August 13
In this high-tech, everything-all-the time age, county fairs are throwbacks, representative of unhurried times and simpler tastes. No fair is less razzle-dazzle -- or more proud of it -- than the Orange County Fair. |
It seems strange to portray a 250-year-old mansion, the centerpiece of a 2,650-acre plantation, as a hidden gem, but in some ways Montpelier perfectly fits the description.  |
Monday, July 30
You can still walk the hallowed ground where thousands were killed, the Civil War turned for a time in the Confederacy's favor and Gen. Thomas J. Jackson became "Stonewall." But it's been a battle. |
Monday, June 25
Tangier Island's residents try to hang on to their special way of life. |
Tangier Island is reachable by one of three daily ferries (from Reedville on the Virginia mainland, or "western shore" as islanders refer to it), Onancock on the Eastern Shore and Crisfield, Md. |
Bruce Gordy Tangier Islanders have a distinctive dialect -- and a distinctive way of saying things. Here are a few phrases you might hear if you visit. |
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PLACES IN VIRGINIA YOU NEED TO SEE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
The 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown reminds us that Virginia is full of intriguing places.
We have the beach and the mountains, destinations rich in fun, history and natural beauty.
With that in mind, we selected 10 spots across the commonwealth to put on your list of must-see places.
This is not necessarily a list of Top 10 Places -- just 10 Really Good Ones. Some of our destinations are obvious, some less so. A few will be pretty hard to get to. All, however, are worthy and are distinctly Virginian.
The 10-part series will be published periodically between now and the end of the year. With each installment, we also will offer a "hidden gem" from that area.
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