Shelf life
There’s a black-and-white photograph of Paul Collinge hanging over the doorway at Ginkgo Bookshop. It looks like the kind of picture you keep of a dead relative. But Collinge is […]
Together with Vault Virginia, Speak! is creating community—at home and abroad
Twenty years ago, Christina Ball was teaching evening Italian courses to adult continuing education students at the University of Virginia. She had come up in academic spaces, doing a Ph.D. […]
Reinventing the strings section
Two years ago, Brian Lindgren got hit by a car. He broke several bones, but the most important was his left pinky. Lindgren is a violist. He needs his left […]
The curator
Thomas Jefferson wrote only one book during his lifetime, Notes on the State of Virginia. He published it while serving as Minister to France, first anonymously in a limited private […]
The style of empathy
Think about the clothes you have in your closet. Or in your dresser. Or in the pile next to your bed. Think about a piece that has some special meaning […]
A new hill to build on
New Hill Development Corporation got its start from a series of conversations about the history and future of Black wealth in Charlottesville. In early 2017, Wes Bellamy and Kathy Galvin, […]
‘We do it the way we do it’
Ralph Dammann and Ray Varona make instruments you’ve probably never heard of. Their specialty is the mandocello, a bigger, baritone version of the mandolin. But while mandocellos traditionally have four […]
The spaces between
Kori Price is one of those rare creatures with full control over both sides of her brain. By day, she is an electrical engineer educated at Virginia Tech. In her […]
The spaces between
Kori Price is one of those rare creatures with full control over both sides of her brain. By day, she is an electrical engineer educated at Virginia Tech. In her […]
The big experiment
Joy Ting made the first barrels of her own wine in 2014. She wanted to experiment with crushing and fermenting grapes still on the stem—a technique called whole-cluster fermentation, common […]