by Jeff Maisey | Apr 28, 2015 | Horton, News & Views
By John Horton In the mid-1980s, the National PTA established the first full week of May as Teacher Appreciation Week and the National Education Association proclaimed Tuesday of that week as National Teacher Day. This year, Teacher Appreciation Week runs from...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 28, 2015 | Horton, News & Views
By John Horton I got to thinking: What if Dr. Martin Luther King were still alive. And, imagine that he got to see Barack Obama elected president (twice). I got to thinking: What a phenomenal happening and extraordinary experience! I think Dr. King would have been...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 28, 2015 | Classical, Music
By Montague Gammon III A promised surprise, a quartet on the rise, a married pair, top Hampton Roads musicians and a well known group of Early Music specialists highlight the Virginia Art Festival’s five morning Coffee Concerts this spring. Coffee Concert I, May 7,...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 28, 2015 | Beer News, Drink
By Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones Ah, life in the United States Navy, haze gray and underway. Periodically while afloat in a boat, the salty sailor gets a hankering for some salubrious suds. All that time at sea, and you can’t see a malted...