Sometimes, it actually is your first rodeo — as a spectator, at least. And when you first see, and feel, a 2,000-pound bull thrash around just yards away, it’s enough to make...
It does not take much imagination to absorb history when you’re standing on the corner of U.S. Route 211 and Richmond Road. As you head north, as Richmond Road becomes Ben Venue Road, the three well-built, well-preserved brick slave cabins are a reminder of the...
When driving from Ben Venue to Massies Corner, it’s not uncommon to feel that you are somewhere special, with the hilltop views of foothills leading up to the Blue Ridge. No one can say whether any of the 70,000 Confederate troops who marched through there on their...