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Column – Tidewater dialect, like others, slowly fades in wired world 

Modern communications as well as the mobility of Americans since the mid-20th century has brought us prosperity as ...

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Column – Some country truisms never get old

I miss a number of things about farm living in the 1950s, but none more so than listening ...

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Column – Gambling’s many forms have common thread: addiction

If gambling’s your thing, Virginia’s determined to scratch your itch. It took a half century of evolving General ...

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Column – Patient, gentle Charlie Horse was farm kid’s delight

I guess every country boy wanted a pony. What farm kid didn’t back then?  Santa Claus never saw ...

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Column – Town Council has history of keeping tradition alive

Smithfield has some wonderful eateries, several of which are on Main Street, but there will never be another ...

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Column – Hard work remains to form a ‘more perfect union’

The chair in which George Washington sat as he presided over what would become the Constitutional Convention of ...

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Column – Much to ponder in latest statistics on hate crimes

Some state as well as local officials have contended, during the past couple of years, that racism is ...

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Column – Where in Virginia does sweet tea become the default?

I was asked recently if I knew where the north/south line lies, below which restaurants serve sweet tea ...

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Column – Isle of Wight Museum endures as a cultural jewel

This column started out as a history of the Isle of Wight County Museum, and it still is.  ...

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Tip of the cap to those who’ve chronicled IW history

The series of monthly columns being published by The Smithfield Times under the heading “Commemorating 250 Years of ...

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