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Day Trips from the Lehigh Valley
DAY TRIPPIN' •Eagles/Carolina pre-season game, Aug. 15. $80. Whitehall-Coplay PTO, Rhonda, 610-266-1995. •"Noah," lunch at Shady Maple, July 24. $88. Landis Valley Village, Wilbur Chocolate, Sturgis Pretzels, lunch, Aug. 20. $74. "Motown,"...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, Holidays, Gardens and Parks, Holiday Vacations
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Best Travel Deals
$355 FINGER LAKES WINE FESTIVAL July 13-14, See the largest showcase of New York State wines with 80 wineries paired with regional artisans, music, culinary classes and breweries all in one beautiful location. Tour the Corning Glass Center and enjoy a...Tags: New Year's Day, Tour Operations Industry, Fort Lauderdale, Trips and Vacations, Entertainment
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A cradle of slavery on the York
When the director of the Middle Passage port markers project arrives in Yorktown to give a talk about slavery Friday night, she'll find herself in the perfect place. Though Old Point Comfort and Jamestown can lay claim to the first Africans in English...
Tags: Slavery, Hampton Roads, York County (Virginia), Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Jamestown Settlement
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Abingdon's faithful return church to its colonial state
When the pious parishioners of Abingdon Church arrived for Sunday services in the mid-1700s, they stepped into one of the most breathtaking architectural spaces in Virginia. Erected nearly a century earlier, the house of worship had risen from the...
Tags: Christianity, Lancaster County (Virginia), Gloucester County, Renovation, Design and Engineering
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Historic Ware Church is a colonial gem
When the well-to-do congregation of Ware Parish began planning a new and much bigger church during the early 1700s, they did so with no small ambition. What the vestry designed - with the help of a now unknown builder - was destined to become one...
Tags: Christianity, Design and Engineering, Arts and Culture, Anglicanism, Architecture
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Jon Meacham, Poetry, and Libraries!
Jon Meacham, Pulizter Prize winner and best-selling author of "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power," will speak about Jefferson tomorrow at Colonial Williamsburg. I'll be there, my pencil and wits (hopefully) sharpened, to bring you the scoop! For more...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Poetry, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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A lost Spanish mission on the York River
When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia. Four times during the previous half-century, Spanish explorers probed the James and York rivers - and on Sept. 10, 1570 they planted a Jesuit mission...
Tags: Archaeology, Hampton Roads, Mexico City, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
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Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society holding benefit estate sale
The Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society will hold an estate sale on Saturday in Middlesex County to benefit the animal shelter. The estate was owned by John "Jack" Phillip Derr Kauffman, who died last year, said a spokeswoman for the organization. The... -
Tidewater Book/Poetry News - Deadlines and Events this week!
There's always a lot going on in Tidewater, whether you're a reader, a writer or poet, or just looking for some literary fun. Check out this week's special events and deadlines! Writers' Events Chesapeake Romance Writers Writers First - 2013 Writer's...
Tags: Authors, Kevin Hart, Arts and Culture, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Norge
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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Cannibalism, Museum of Natural History, Anthropology, Arts and Culture
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Scientists find cannibalism at American settlement in Jamestown
Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism. On Wednesday, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and...
Tags: Archaeology, Research, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Museum of Natural History, Anthropology
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Colonial Virginia gentry embraced stranded North African
As the political epicenter of British America’s richest and most populous colony, the town of Williamsburg played host to a rich cross-spectrum of humanity during the 1700s. Planters, merchants and tradesmen of all shades and stripes came from...
Tags: Executive Branch, England, Algeria, Georgetown, Franklin (Franklin, Virginia)
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