The wonderful, statewide, VFH-sponsored radio program With Good Reason featured Encyclopedia Virginia‘s managing editor Matthew Gibson and one of our section editors, Dr. John Kneebone, on a recent broadcast. Listen here, where you’ll also find a discussion of the “discovery” of America. IMAGE: I took the image above from the With Good Reason site as [...]

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The Onion pretends to do what the Charlottesville CBS affiliate did for real. Go figure.

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Marijean Jaggers of Charlottesville has generously featured the EV blog on her “Blog of the Week” segment that airs every Tuesday on CBS-19. You can read about it here and watch the video here (don’t ask me who that shaven-headed weirdo with the Commie propaganda poster is, though). Jaggers is a blogger herself at STLWorkingMom, [...]

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Feedback from a reader of our Buck v. Bell entry whose aunt, like Carrie Buck, was institutionalized at the Virginia Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded in Lynchburg: I have an Aunt that was placed at this same place for the same reason,she will be 87 next month, she is the only one left from [...]

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A new podcast from the outgoing BackStory producer Rachel Quimby looks at the surprising origins of the song “John Brown’s Body.” 150 years ago this October, the terrorist/hero John Brown raided the armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. By December 1859, his body lay a-moulderin’ in the grave, a fact quickly memorialized in the famous ditty [...]

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