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Miller Center Forum in Charlottesville Virginia
February 10, 2012 @ 11:00AM
UVA Miller Center
UVA Miller Center Forum: Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their Presidents. Eli Saslow is a staff writer at the Washington Post. A Book Signing will follow this forum. For more information please visit the Miller Center website.
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Don’t plant those flowers just before a frost!
There’s a great new tool from the U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture. They have developed a GPS-based site where you can go to investigate the recommended planting dates for gardens in your area. The last time the USDA developed a plant-hardiness map was in 1990, and this time around they’ve added some interactive features, as well as a redefined geographic zones with updated temperature data. They’ve also added two new zones for accuracy. You can research the hardiness of particular plants in searchable areas at THIS LINK.
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Staunton Virginia is a small town that’s approximately 40 miles west of Charlottesville. Its scenery … up against the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills in the Shenandoah Valley … is amazingly beautiful. And the town itself is wonderfully charming. From a real estate point of view, the homes in Staunton range from cute bungalows to stately brick town homes.
And now Staunton has another attribute that makes it worth the 40 mile drive.
Chocolate.
That’s right. Chocolate. If you regularly read this blog, you know how much we already have loved Charlottesville’s chocolatier, Gearhart’s Chocolates. Until now, folks from the Staunton area had to drive to C’ville to get their yummy chocolates.
Now Staunton is proud to have its own chocolate shop. Its name is Cocoa Mill. Cocoa Mill used to be in nearby Lexington VA, so people already know how wonderful it is. Their chocolates are made fresh from real cocoa beans and the heavenly scent of their shop is reason enough to visit.
Hint: Valentine’s Day.
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A piece of Civil War history has been discovered in Virginia. But it wasn’t intentional. It’s still here in part because the Civil War Hospital in Culpeper became so dirty that people referred to it as The Graffiti House.
Often Civil War patients at the hospital …. out of boredom …. apparently used charcoal to make scribblings on the walls. Charcoal is an inert substance that does not deteriorate. Then the walls became so grimey that a thin layer of film covered the scribblings, just prior to the walls being whitewashed.
Now historians are painstakingly removing the whitewash to discover the authentic thoughts and messages from the soldiers of another era. They’ve discovered that the grimey film actually helped to preserve the scribblings underneath the whitewash. You can read the amazing DETAILS HERE.
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