For many children, Halloween is one of their favorite holidays. They love dressing up, and I’m sure the thought of all the candy they’ll get at parties and trick-or-treating also helps make this a favorite holiday. If you have a child in your life who loves Halloween, take advantage of that interest to share a…
History of the Rappahannock River
From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library The Civil War on the River Lines of Virginia, 1862-1864 "Trask argues that the bloody engagements on the river lines were the most important battles of the Civil War in the East, far surpassing even the dramatic contests at Antietam and Gettysburg in significance. During the Civil War, the…
Toll Bridge across the Rappahannock
By Roy Butler Since the body of water known as the Rappahannock River separated two important areas of commerce and trade, it had, of course, to be crossed constantly. The Indians had their canoes and the early settlers had their boats and ferries. The first bridge was built about 1800 and was referred to as…
The Story of the Rappahannock Canal
By Robert Hodge In June 1816, the Virginia Herald announced a meeting to be held to formulate plans for making the Rappahannock River commercially navigable above the fall line rapids at Fredericksburg. That meeting was followed by many others which resulted in an official survey and recommendation in 1817 to develop the river upstream for fifty miles…
June Bugs and Other Fantastic Creatures
You see a bug with a cool green body skittering across a picnic table. It stops and seems to be staring at you. The first thing out of your mouth is: A. Eww! A bug! Or B. Oooh! A bug! If you are the kind of kid who thinks bugs are cool, summertime was made for you…
If you like Cold Mountain
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty…
If you like The Snowman
In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of the multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work - and may be drawing in…
If you like The Hound of the Baskervilles
Is it true that a hellish hound is haunting the lonely moors, hunting down the hapless Baskervilles through the generations? If anyone can put this chilling legend to rest, it's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It seems the body of the latest owner of the Baskerville estate has just been discovered in a ghastly condition…
If you like Hidden Figures
Before a computer became an inanimate object and before Sputnik changed the course of history, before the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education established that separate was in fact not equal, and before the poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech rang out over the steps of the Lincoln…
If you like Good Omens
The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems - the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race. Good Omens In April 2016, author Neil Gaiman announced that he was writing…
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