“There’s nothing quite like an oyster,” says Travis Croxton. “You pluck it from the sea, shuck it and eat it. You don’t need spices or sauces. It’s perfect just the way it is.” Croxton should know. He’s one of the people who is bringing back craft Virginia oysters, making them among the tastiest…
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In the early efforts to honor George Washington, his admirers went overboard and created a mythical, almost God-like figure, building dozens of statues and telling storybook tales that did not have an ounce of truth to them. When he became known as the “father of our country,” a “father-like”…
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Most people visiting the State Capitol building in Richmond, Virginia are drawn to the huge equestrian statue of George Washington, which sits above a circle of other famous Virginia Revolutionary war heroes including Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall. But just 100 feet away…
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The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is upon us, and will surely be one of the largest celebration's in the nation's history. While the actual shooting war started in 1775 in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, in the end it was Virginia—the richest and largest of the 13 colonies—that…
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