As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
A new exhibit at the Virginia Museum for Fine Arts, which takes its title from Whitman’s poem “As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Wood[s],” showcases one of VMFA’s seminal works—Eastman Johnson’s… Read More»
Tag: Around the State
A Minor Catastrophe
The Washington Post reports today on the “sorry fate” of Carter’s Grove, the Georgian-style plantation built in 1750 by Carter Burwell, grandson of the larger-than-life Robert “King” Carter. (We don’t… Read More»
A Latter-Day Henry Box Brown
Washington City Paper reports on the 5×5 project in Washington, D.C., in which five curators invite five artists each to install temporary public artworks around the capital. The only local… Read More»
Statues for No One! Statues for Everyone!
You might recall the argument in Charlottesville over Confederate statues. It began at our dear old Festival of the Book, and was prompted by City Councilor Kirstin Szakos’s suggestion that “a lot of people”… Read More»
How Tall Does This Man Look to You?
… this man being, of course, James Madison, our fourth, but also our shortest, president. I ask because the staff of Encyclopedia Virginia was in lovely Harrisonburg this past weekend… Read More»
The Bridge Has Been Smoking …
Alert reader David Urban noticed our post on High Bridge, near Farmville, and commented: Vince Gilligan, producer of Breaking Bad and the X Files, uses this pic as the logo… Read More»
Was Jefferson an Enlightened Slaveowner?
The exhibit Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty opens today at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. This has been a huge undertaking by the… Read More»
“Proud, honorable, and stoic … a gentleman”
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! The University of Virginia—and Encyclopedia Virginia, too—is observing the federal holiday, while the administration of Washington and Lee University has decided to take a… Read More»
In Which Gabriel Has Risen Again!
It’s a tough time for Civil War monuments, apparently. On December 11, NBC29 in Charlottesville reported that the city’s equestrian Robert E. Lee monument had been vandalized, possibly by the… Read More»
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