CHARLES CITY — When the Pilgrims left England aboard the Mayflower on Sept. 6, 1620, they were already late for the first official Thanksgiving observed by the English in the New World. On Dec. 4, ...

Have you ever been to the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City? I went to the annual event for the first time. It takes place on the first Sunday in November. The step ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will be releasing an adult bald eagle that has been a patient at the Center since late March. The eagle will be released at 1 p.m. Wednesday by Center President Ed ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Get ready for the annual Virginia Thanksgiving Festival! On Sunday, Nov. 5 th, thousands of people are expected to take a step back in history to commemorate America’s First ...

As a young man, I often received correspondence from Dr. Fred Woodlief, a dentist on Chamberlayne Avenue in Richmond. He was involved in the Woodlief Family Association and made me aware that an ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Get ready for the 60th Virginia Thanksgiving Festival! On Sunday, Nov. 6, thousands of people are expected to take a step back in history to commemorate America’s First Thanksgiving ...

The hilltop mansion at Berkeley Plantation has a sweeping view of American history, if you’re still into that sort of thing. English colonists settled the land along the James River a year before ...

President Bush this morning toured the Central Virginia Foodbank in Richmond, where he honored a volunteer worker and briefly helped place canned food into a cart for distribution. He then departed ...