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Photos Courtesy of New Ravenna/Adam Ewing

New Ravenna’s Exquisite Tile Mosaics

On the Southernmost tip of the Delmarva Peninsula, bounded on the west by the Chesapeake Bay and the east by...

garden of tomorrow

Norfolk Botanical Garden Is Growing

Former Norfolk Botanical Garden President and CEO Michael Desplaines is at the wheel of a golf cart, deftly navigating some...

pups and pints

Stay! At Pups and Pints

Heard the one about the dog that walks into a bar and asks, “Is this fire hydrant taken?” That’s not...

Wagsters Theater

Making Magic with the Wagsters

Right around the corner from the Williamsburg Premium Outlets stands an unassuming building that formerly housed the congregation of Calvary...

Harbors Edge

Firing Up the Flavor at Harbor’s Edge

If your idea of the food served at a senior living community is canned peas and applesauce, you might be...

Author Patti McCracken's "The Angel Makers"

Patti McCracken’s “The Angel Makers”

Patti McCracken wandered around in the village of Nagyrev, Hungary, with her friend and neighbor Harald Leban, whom she’d invited...

FOUR MODELS Platted in 1955 by Frank Whitehurst and completed in 1960, Woodhurst’s roughly 33 acres features 81 single-family midcentury modern homes on half to three-quarter acre lots in four different models.

Woodhurst Neighborhood Added to Historic Register

If a National Register of Historic Places designation makes you think of Colonial era homes with red brick and plaster,...

2023 cova idea house town house

2023 CoVa Idea House: A Taste for Space

When is an Idea House not a house? When it is a townhouse. But “Urbanna,” the 2023 CoVa Idea (Town)...

Aberdeen Barn. Photos by Jacqui Renager

Old Fashioned Steakhouses Our Readers Love

Sometimes you want to go wherever everybody knows your name. Or maybe where a friendly smile and a familiar crock...

Elizabeth City

Rediscover Elizabeth City’s Historic Charm

An exploration around the resurging, yet relaxed waterfront town in northeastern North Carolina reveals colorful public art and music-filled pedestrian...

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