Opinion

The late Joe Stutts had a way with words

One of the greatest pleasures involved in writing The Short Rows for the past 22 years has been ...

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But for the shouting, we’d find some common ground

What we say, and how we say it, matters. Unfortunately, much of what we say today, especially in ...

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Tidewater has long history of luring tourists

We tend to think of tourism promotion as a product of modern times, something that states and localities ...

Opinion

Before combines, peanut sticks were essential tool of the trade

The recent column about copperheads actually came to mind when I was thinking about writing this one. It’s ...

Opinion

Polite, persistent activism gets more results than shouting

Citizen activists, angry over any number of things, are increasingly making life miserable for the members of Virginia’s ...

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Don’t mess with a copperhead

August and well into September is the period during which farm families were most wary of copperheads. We ...

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God bless Tidewater folks who still drop the ‘r’

I regret that I haven’t made a more serious effort to document fully the dialect of our native ...

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The sweet sounds of yesteryear revisited

Several weeks ago, we were in the sanctuary of Benn’s United Methodist Church, sitting around chatting while waiting ...

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Smithfield’s peanut prominence was fading before fire

Local folk who are intrigued by such things this week are observing the “great peanut fire” of Aug. ...

Opinion

Frosty Landon’s legacy: open government for all

By the time I came to know Frosty Landon in 1989 or thereabouts, he was already a legend ...

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