Category: Virginia
Honoring America’s Heroes
Every independence day we celebrate our freedom. This soldier is reminded of the cost of that freedom as he protects the resting place of America’s…
Manassas Sesquicentennial
As July 21st, 1861 dawned, residents of northern Virginia could not fathom what was about to take place. It’s been 150 years since they witnessed…
Cyrus McCormick
For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is the story of a birthday…
The Battle of Cedar Creek
There are nearly 400 national park sites in the United States. Today we visit one of the newest in the system; a place of vital…
Burning the Fields
Farmer’s crops can fall prey to the elements of mother nature. Heat, hail, wind and much more can destroy a crop. In 1864 it was…
Belle Grove Plantation
Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil War. So it may be…
Facing Challenges in the East
Virginia’s farmers may not be in the middle of the corn belt, but the challenges they face are something all in agriculture should heed. Today…
A Great Pumpkin Patch
Not many people make their living off of a pumpkin patch. Matt and Andrea Lohr don’t pay all of the bills by selling the orange…
A Farm In Virginia
Matt Lohr has accomplished much in life before the age of 40. He’s served multiple terms in his state’s legislature, is currently the state’s commissioner…
Stories of Tragedy and Triumph at the Freedom House
It is called the Freedom House. This free museum is housed in what used to be the headquarters of one of the largest slave trading…
