On the way home from the beach, we passed a big sign that said “Nahunta Pork Center: America’s Largest Pork Display.” We weren’t sure exactly what that meant, but decided it was time for a culinary adventure, so left the main road to follow the s…
I got back last night from a great 4-day getaway with a group of girlfriends to North Topsail Beach, NC, where we shared a duplex a short walk from the beach. This was our third trip to the beach together, and it was a terrific, relaxing, laugh-filled …
My daughter, the sometime baker, is visiting from New York, and has spent the last 2 days in the kitchen, experimenting with new recipes. Her tiny un-air conditioned Brooklyn kitchen was getting her down, so she fled the city to stretch out in my big, …
This afternoon, we went to the matinee of Stage Door Productions’ performance of Once Upon a Mattress, a musical comedy based on the fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea. Stage Door has been around for ten years, and they always put on crowd-pleasin…
Tonight was the first night of Operafest at Mary Washington, an event we look forward to every year. The concert features professional singers and talented students who participate in an intensive five-week opera workshop at the college, and this recit…
A couple of weekends ago, we stopped by the annual meet of the Fredericksburg Antique Automobile Club, held down by the Visitor Center. It seems like vintage cars are big around here, and we enjoy checking them out whenever we come across a show. Even …
I spent this morning checking out Fredericksburg’s annual Soap Box Derby on William Street. The race was first run in the city in1948, and after fizzling out in the mid-1970’s, it made a comeback in the 1990’s. Today the city’s Soap Box Derby is the …
We got a bonanza of produce at the Spotsylvania Farmer’s Market on Saturday, almost all of the veggies we needed for the week, and pretty enough to take a picture. Two kinds of lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cukes, tomatoes (greenhouse), cilantro, new p…
Temperatures in the high 90’s are a perfect excuse to go out for ice cream. Although I love Carl’s for the cultural experience, I’m really more of a hard ice cream fan, and for that, you can’t beat Lee’s on Caroline Street. Actually, the owne…
When the temperature nears 100 like yesterday (and the heat index is well above that), lots of adventurous folks head to the Rappahannock River to cool off. We stopped at the riverside to watch the canoeists and tubers for a bit. The river gauge was in…
