News Archive

On The Story: Dick Gordon's featured guest will be John Whitfield of Blue Ridge Legal Services. He'll be talking about the challenges of helping needy legal clients during tough financial times. John is a past WMRA essayist. 

Independence Day in WMRAland.  Here's a list of some known and (presumably) free (mostly at least) 4th of July events for 2012.

Coming Up Saturday, June 30th at 4p.

Ghosts, ghouls, shades from the past ... in this episode of Radiolab, real-life people try to pin down, and make peace with, mysterious figures that haunt them, prod them, and fade out of existence.

By Jason Barr

Harrisonburg,VA – Crows

A flock of crows roosted over the eaves of my grandfather's barn. If I hadn't known any better, I would have thought they were working in shifts; there always seemed to be five of them there, running their yellowed beaks through their oily feathers, cawing insistently.

By Derek Kannemeyer

Richmond, VA – Mr. Kannemeyer is a teacher and a poet, and the short short story genre appealed to him because of its crispness and its briskness... the snapshot momentariness of it.

9th Grade Diversity Workshop was inspired by a few lines left on Mr. Kannemeyer's classroom whiteboard.

9th Grade Diversity Workshop Report, by Casey, Martha P., Martha V., & Josephine

Q1. 8 ways our group is alike

~ We like boys.