Erika Howsare has been a C-VILLE contributor since 2002. Her first nonfiction book is The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors (2024), and she hosted a podcast miniseries called “If You See a Deer.” She teaches writing locally.
On his blog today, local Realtor Jim Duncan points to a report just released by the Business Travel Coalition that names the Charlottesville airport as one of the top 100 regional airports threatened by rising fuel costs.
A not-at-all-cheerful report from the Charlottesville/ Albemarle Health Department shows that local African-American babies are much more likely than white babies to die before they reach the age of one. Black children in the Charlottesville area have three to five times the infant mortality rate of whites, says the new research.
Yes, it’s true: People are scared of snakes. This from two researchers in the UVA psychology department, Vanessa LoBue and Judy S. DeLoache, whose study gets some exposure in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. The pair asked 120 young kids and their parents to look at photos of snakes and flowers and measured their reaction times in picking out a threat (one snake photo among eight flowers) and a non-threat (one flower photo among eight snakes).
An unidentified man was taken to the UVA Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon following an attack that left him with serious wounds in the abdomen.
Last night, at the Toliver House restaurant in charming Gordonsville, about 50 people gathered to celebrate the bounty of food and drink that’s locally produced. The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) sponsored the four-course dinner, but attention fell mostly on the farmers (and distillers, winemakers and ice-cream producers) in attendance, and the food they’d created.
UVA announced this morning that its Dean of Admission, John Blackburn, will retire one year from now in June 2009. He’s been the university’s longest-serving admissions dean, having held the position since 1985. Blackburn was also an associate dean of admissions for six years before taking the reins of the admissions office. He is 66 years old.
Today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch waxes analytic about the fact that Al Groh and the rest of the UVA football recruiting team is doing way better on signing players from within Virginia for the 2009 season than they did in 2008.
The night of the Charlottesville High School prom, April 26, it’s raining. In front of the school, three kids are standing under an overhang to keep their hairdos and clothes out of the drizzle. A lone white limo lumbers away from the curb. Most everybody who’s going to come is already here. They’ve already walked […]
More feature articles Candid camera Photo giant Mary Ellen Mark turns her lens to the Charlottesville High School prom Dwindling supply Adventures in Polaroid Land The first picture of Mary Ellen Mark’s I remember seeing is one of her most famous. It shows the Damm family—a sometimes-homeless clan—during a period in 1987 when they were […]
More feature articles Candid cameraPhoto giant Mary Ellen Mark turns her lens to the Charlottesville High School prom A life in pictures A look at Mary Ellen Mark’s photography Mark in Charlottesville As part of the Festival of the Photograph, Mary Ellen Mark will be one of three headlining artists (the others are Joel-Peter Witkin […]