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Before Steph, There Was a Barn in Grottoes
Before he became one of the purest outside shooters the league has ever produced, Dell Curry was a kid in Grottoes, Virginia, walking to his coach’s…
Fifty Years of Trying: What Simple Living Looks Like at Shannon Farm
Shannon Farm Community sits in the Rockfish Valley near Afton, Virginia, roughly twenty-seven miles west of Charlottesville.
The Street That Almost Wasn’t Saved
Beverley St is now one of the best-preserved Victorian main streets in America. In 1965, the city knocked down 32 historic buildings a block away, and…
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The Valley That Built America: Settlers, Culture, and the Revolutionary War
Free from tobacco and Tidewater aristocracy, the early settlers of the Shenandoah Valley forged a backcountry culture uniquely their own.
 • Brad Thomas
A Perfect Weekend Trip in Staunton
Everything worth seeing on foot is within a mile of everything else.
 • Brad Thomas
A Guide to a Night Out in the Friendly City of Harrisonburg
Harrisonburg has two distinct nightlife personalities running simultaneously, and they don’t always overlap.
Winchester's Other History: Beyond the Civil War and the Apple Blossom Festival
Winchester's Civil War history or the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival are draws to an interesting area that deserves more attention.
Every Yard Can Be a Rest Stop: The Monarch Migration Through the Shenandoah Valley
Monarch butterflies regularly travel through our area on their way to Mexico, and you can help provide a safe and healthy place for them to stop and…
 • Brad Thomas
The Artists Working the Valley
There’s a real, working art community here, documented to fill a gallery on paper, but not particularly well-known outside the region that produced it.
 • Brad Thomas
What's Under the Valley: The Limestone Story Behind Every Cave in the Region
The answer sits half a billion years deep, and it starts long before there was a Valley here at all.
 • Brad Thomas
The Park Most Staunton Residents Drive Past Without Stopping
Five miles of singletrack, a mountain bike community, and a birding legacy most Staunton residents have never discovered.
Published on The Stauntonian • 
The Highest Point in Augusta County is Standing Watch
Elliott Knob holds one of only three remaining fire lookout towers in Virginia. On a clear day the summit sees from Massanutten to the Peaks of Otter…
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