It’s been exactly one year since my first blog post. I’ve gone to a lot more local events and visited more “diners, drive-ins and dives” than I ordinarily would have, and combing the Weekender for blog-worthy events has become a habit. But I’…
After a year of blogging, we come right back around to where we started: the Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair. The Fair this year was touted as being better than ever, so my husband and I visited on Saturday. Admittedly, we probably would have gone eve…
Here are some photos I took in the last couple of months that never made it into a post. Consider this just a little cleanup.First, eating. My favorite place downtown to get a quick lunch is Eileen’s on Caroline Street. They always have creative sandwi…
Here are some photos I took in the last couple of months that never made it into a post. Consider this just a little cleanup.First, eating. My favorite place downtown to get a quick lunch is Eileen’s on Caroline Street. They always have creative sandwi…
My husband and I got hooked on bluegrass music when we were in college. Bluegrass was experiencing a revival, and bluegrass bands would occasionally put on outdoor concerts on campus. As married 20-somethings, we used to go to 3-day bluegrass festivals…
A building most Fredericksburgers are unlikely to visit is the new and improved Virginia Welcome Center on I-95 just north of Exit 130. I stopped there today on the way home from a trip to Quantico just to check it out. The original center was built in…
Because of a sudden rain shower, tonight’s free performance by Stage Door Productions of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) was slightly abridged. No matter—it was still the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. The play wa…
Thanks as always to the calendar of events in the Free Lance-Star’s Weekender section, I saw that Hartwood Winery was having a “Mid-Summer Festival” today and tomorrow. Admission is $10 per person, and although I usually balk at paying that much …
Having already taken my brother and his wife to just about every historic home in the immediate Fredericksburg area, on Saturday we decided to head to Montpelier, the home of our fourth president, James Madison, and his wife, Dolley. From my house, Mon…
The 4th of July is celebrated in downtown Fredericksburg pretty much the same way it’s celebrated in a lot of towns across the U.S.: street festival, food and craft vendors, kids activities, music and fireworks. It looks like it was pretty much the s…
