Humanities Feature Bureau Winter 2007-08
A Production of VFH Radio
Archives:
December 2007
The EcoMod Experiment
In early December, Governor Kaine visited the work of one University of Virginia Architecture professor who wants to prove that green design can be affordable. Jesse Dukes reports on the EcoMod experiment.
A Voluntary Gas Tax
As the holiday travel season begins, could you imagine paying an extra 50 cents per gallon of gas, voluntarily?! Martha Woodroof visited a Harrisonburg group who does just that.
January 2008
'Women Folk:' A Musical Reunion
For fans of folk music's heyday during the early 1960's, prepare to be nostalgic. Martha Woodroof recently dropped in on a musical reunion.
Crisis at Monticello
A presence as old as Monticello itself is in crisis at
Thomas Jefferson's historic home outside of Charlottesville. Nancy King
has the story.
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February 2008
Restoring the Lynnhaven Fancy
The Lynnhaven River, in Virginia Beach, was once famous for the salty, fat oysters that grow in its waters. Pollution brought the harvest of Lynnhaven Fancies to a near standstill over thirty years ago, though, and few people have tasted the local delicacy since. But, as Jesse Dukes reports from Virginia Beach, there's new hope for Virginia's most famous oyster.
Deciding to home school
As part of VFH Radio's occasional series on Decisions Virginians make and why they've made them... Nancy King talks with a couple who educate their two children at home, in rural Nelson County, Virginia.
