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A Great Lakes Odyssey — Part 1

“Reuniting with Grandfather’s 100-year-old ‘Good Ship Tobermory II’” URBANNA — I guess one might say it was like making a pilgrimage to Canterbury or Jerusalem. Or waking up as a child on Christmas morning and first seeing the array of gifts Santa had brought underneath the glittering tree. Or being first setting eyes on my newborn baby. Such things could never be forgotten. I...

‘Oyster Fest provides decades of memories’

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15 It occurred to me that this year’s Urbanna Oyster Festival was my 40th....

Wooden Boatbuilding Week in D’ville was fun!

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14 URBANNA — Every summer the Deltaville Maritime Museum offers a family wooden boat-building camp....

Dog Friends group morphs to Middlesex Pet Friends for Life

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13 URBANNA -  There are many dog lovers in Middlesex County. Something here attracts people who...

Red alert! Father falls in love not long after wife’s passing

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 URBANNA — Just as life was settling down in Middlesex County and the days were humming...

Educating One Woman: Four decades of writing (Part 5)

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 URBANNA — Changing from writing humor to political opinion in 1988 got the attention of a few people...

Educating One Woman: Four decades of writing (Part 4)

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 URBANNA — In 1988 I decided to try writing opinion. I loved lampooning society as I saw it, but...

Educating One Woman: Four decades of writing (Part 3)

Part 1 • Part 2 URBANNA — My first Sentinel column, “Journeys,” that began 40 years ago this July was my story of a canoe...

Educating One Woman: Four decades of writing (Part 2)

Part 1 URBANNA — Realtor Ed Ruark was waiting for me when I arrived in Urbanna the next morning. Off we went in his car...

Educating One Woman: Four decades of writing (Part 1)

URBANNA — It was the July 4 weekend in 1984. Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the world was at peace, immigration was...

“A case of sea fever — the pursuit of happiness”

URBANNA — Every so often I have a knock your socks off kind of experience. A recent dinner at Hazel and David Laughton’s house...

W.Va. summer memories: Some happy, some sad

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 By the end of the second summer in West Virginia camp,...

‘West Virginia Summers in paradise begin to fade’

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 URBANNA — The emotional love poem that Peter had written and shared with me...

Though some ill-advised, camp traditions were guarded carefully a half century ago

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 A newcomer to camp, I quickly learned camp traditions were guarded more carefully than a conservative Episcopalian guards...

Poetic counselor from W.Va summers recalled

Part 1 • Part 2 Getting out of Florida during the unbearably hot summers, escaping parenting duties for a few months, and being in the...

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