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December 14, 2020 Baked Goods / Christmas traditions / Virginia

The History of Food in ‘Housekeeping in Old Virginia’

This cookbook is a time capsule of our Southern food traditions. While some of the recipes are probably not to our modern tastes, many are.

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July 1, 2014 Museums / Quilts/quilting / Virginia

A Quilt and Its Many Connections

A new exhibit on quilts opens July 1 at the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center in Christiansburg, VA.

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