John Boyer and Katie Pritchard have opened a wine bar named Blacksburg Wine Lab that offers a totally new experience: high-quality, unique wines and tapas combined with a experimental approach that focuses on introducing clients to lesser-known wines of the world, while educating their minds and their palates. This occurs in an elegant yet comfortable atmosphere in which professors, students, business people, patrons Read more...
Originally constructed as a log cabin in 1801 by James Patton Preston, who would become Governor. Solitude was the home of two other Virginia governors, John Floyd and John Buchanan Floyd before it was remodeled into its more formal appearance by Robert Taylor Preston in 1859. Robert Taylor Preston became a capable officer for the Confederacy and served as a Read more...
A free lecture and discussion with Dr. Holly Pinheiro, part of the “New Perspectives on the Civil War Era” speaker series. Dr. Pinheiro will discuss his research examining every Philadelphian-born African American man who served in a Pennsylvanian United States Colored Troops regiment. He investigates their families from 1850 to the 1930s to argue that northern freeborn African Americans fought Read more...
