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Crosby thrilled locals and showed off his best moves at a square dance named in his honor.

Curios: Star Struck in Front Royal, Virginia – Bing’s 1950 Home Run

Bing Crosby, the celebrated singer, actor and sportsman, created a lasting memorial in the form of a baseball stadium on a day when 25,000 people came out to help create it.
Circa 1938 postcard shows the Front Royal Army Remount Depot.

Curios: If Those Hills Could Talk… Secrets of 3,200 Acres in Virginia

Since 1909, a beautiful tract of land near Front Royal has carefully guarded a varying set of not-so-public identities.
The white post of White Post, Virginia, has been standing, in various rebuilt and repaired iterations, since 1750.

Curios: White Post in the Middle of the Road – George Washington Put it There First

The tiny Virginia village of White Post has a historic claim to fame, that people keep knocking over.
Clockwise from top left: 1. Billy Thompson II is proud to see tiny White Post finally listed on the 1984 Virginia Highway map. 2. Billy Thompson II gives an auto tour of local historic homes in 1983. 3. Billy Thompson II hams it up with television celebrity Willard Scott in 1989. 4. Billy II, W.R. III and young Billy Ray IV strike a pose with Uncle Albert in front of the company’s restored 1931 Model A, circa 1987. 5. Five helps staff with quality assurance inspections. 6. Billy Ray IV, Five and W.R. III with the company’s 1931 Model A shop truck.

Five Generations at White Post Restorations

It’s nice to catch up with old friends, which we did 30 years later in White Post, Virginia, to talk again to some unique, world-class car guys.
Eager goats race toward their next meal on private property in Cismont, Virginia.

Curios: Natural Vegetation Control – Goat Busters on the Land

Goats eat between 3 and 9% of their body weight each day, and put on a bit of a show while they do it.

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Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

April 12, 2018

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