Five decades after opening on East Water Street, the C&O continues to define Charlottesville dining

Earlier this year, the C&O Restaurant posted on Instagram: “On March 22, 1976, Philip Stafford and Sandy McAdams opened the C&O Restaurant. Fifty years later, everyone in this town has a C&O story.”  The restaurant’s greatest story, though, belongs to the people who shaped it. It begins with the audacious determination to open a French […]

Taking time

Dad’s words stung like a leather belt across my backside. “You know what you are?” he asked. “You’re quick, certain, and wrong!”  It was more than half a century ago, and I was less than 10, but the sting still lingers. I grew up in the crowded middle of seven children, where it seemed all […]