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False Cape State Park’s Winter Wonderland

False Cape State Park, a 4,800-acre wilderness park located on a 1-mile wide barrier strip between the Atlantic Ocean and...

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Left Side: Political Debates In Media

One evening about 20 years ago, I sat down to dinner with Charlton Heston to celebrate the publication of a...

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Right Side: Political Debates In Media

I initially thought I would begin this article with a Chinese parable about the futility of shouting at the skies...

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Norfolk Novelist Lydia Netzer Explores Love and Outer Space In Her Books

Norfolk author Lydia Netzer’s books don’t fit neatly into a single box. But then neither do love or science, both...

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Feeding The Wild At Virginia Living Museum

Interested in trying something wild? Amber Warren has just the thing for you. As Animal Room volunteer manager for the...

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Sam The Lasagna Lady

For Samantha A. Peavy, life, like lasagna, has many layers to it, each with lessons in resilience, endurance, loving again...

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A Trip Down Memory Lane Leads To North Carolina’s Mount Airy

Outside the Andy Griffith Museum, an iconic bronze statue of Andy and Opie, titled "Goin' Fishin,'" was dedicated by TV...

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5 Unique Ways To Decorate With Holiday Wreaths

It’s a tradition for many to deck the halls with twinkling white lights, shimmering garland and fresh, plump wreaths ornamented...

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Rick Wasmund Reinvents Spirits at Copper Fox Distillery

The man who is reinventing whiskey talks about his eureka moment. "No one else was doing it," says Rick Wasmund,...

Searching for God in the 7 Cities: Christianity, Part 2

Wave Church And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ~ 1 Corinthians...

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