Whether Katlin and Mohsin Kazmi are in their garden harvesting onions and garlic, or in the kitchen chopping and sautéing those same ingredients, they spend a lot of their time together thinking about the concept of home. Katlin grew up in a farming family in Russell County, Virginia, close to […]
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Getting to JBR Vineyards in Giles County, Virginia, is a lot like what pioneer wine importer Neal Rosenthal describes of his first forays into off-the-beaten paths of cult French and Italian wine houses in his book “Reflections of a Wine Merchant.” Rosenthal writes nostalgically about his adventures in wrong turns, […]
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In journalist Beth Macy’s “Factory Man”, the slow demise of the manufacturing industry is meticulously and beautifully chronicled. Despite its main protagonist John D. Bassett III’s personal success in beating back the tide of globalization and other factors that have contributed to the atrophy of the backbone of Appalachian economic […]
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On the cusp of an election cycle, Virginia’s trajectory toward further decriminalizing cannabis seems imminent. And yet, the state’s laws against marijuana use and possession remain some of the nation’s most draconian. In Virginia, misdemeanor possession of less than half an ounce of cannabis includes up to 30 days of […]
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