The proposed 7,500-person amphitheater overlooking the James River at Tredegar Iron Works is not a done deal, but developers are optimistic enough about the project to target an opening for spring 2025.
Bill Lohmann
Don’t be alarmed, in the coming weeks, if you’re driving through the Shenandoah Valley on Interstate 81 and you come upon a convoy of aging ambulances – close to two dozen – motoring north on the highway.
Relocated from its familiar spot next to The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar to make room for a proposed riverfront amphitheater, the statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad is in its new spot at The Valentine.
The 50th anniversary of the 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the beginning of the end of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, struck Virginia War Memorial director Clay Mountcastle as a good time for an exhibit at the memorial, looking at the lives of Virginia’s often overlooked Vietnam veterans.
The Library of Virginia is marking its bicentennial with an exhibition – “200 Years, 200 Stories” – that highlights people and their stories a…
The power of reading and storytelling have helped bring acclaimed author Meg Medina to this point in her life, and now she has the opportunity…
Instability has been an unfortunate hallmark of John and Tameka Murray’s life together the past dozen years, as they’ve moved from apartment t…
A portion of a Civil War battlefield east of Richmond where U.S. Colored Troops gained a famous victory has been purchased for preservation by…
As a longtime homicide investigator who worked on cases around the world, Larry McCann half-jokes that when it came time to write a novel, he …
The image from two decades ago has made an indelible impression on Caroline Ring’s life and her memory though she doesn’t remember the moment at all.
Bill Lohmann commented on A child's 1949 letter to Santa comes home for Christmas
Thank you for the nice comment, but just wanted you to know it's my columnist colleague the great Paul Woody who is retiring, not I. I'm not going anywhere.