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Life Down Southside Way
If someone had told me years ago, I would buy a Victorian house in Blackstone, Virginia, I would have given…
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Anita Brookner, author of Hotel du Lac
Do you know of anyone who wrote twenty-six novels after a successful career as a professor and art historian? Or…
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A Tribute to Claudia Emerson, Poet and Friend
Claudia Emerson (1957 – 2014) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Late Wife in 2006. I think she would…
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Approaching Christmas
Virginia folk artist Eldridge Bagley tells the stories of everyday life in a small town—on canvas. On a golden November…
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Contemporary Writers’ Favorite Classic Books by Women Authors
Many of us love classic books, so I thought it would be fascinating to discover a few contemporary writers’ favorite…
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Beryl Markham, Aviatrix, Adventurer, Author of West with the Night
Beryl Markham (October 26, 1902 – August 3, 1986) is perhaps best remembered as a pioneering aviatrix, becoming the first…