Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia)

Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America

2009-09-08 00:00:00

Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...

Theater review: 'King Lear' times 3

2010-06-28 21:33:09

Ashmead's Kernel apples are deliciously ugly

2009-10-09 00:00:00

Small, russet brown, and dotted with pockmarks, the Ashmead's Kernel apples grown organically by Windrose Farm in Paso Robles definitely won't win any beauty prizes. They do, however, have the most intense, complex flavor of any fruit in the world, strong...

What's in the teen pregnancy pact's fine print?

2008-06-23 00:00:00

Today's question: Is the so-called Gloucester teen-pregnancy pact an anomaly, an indication of something wrong with modern parenting or something else? Kerry Howley and Kay Hymowitz debate the politics of children. Later this week, they'll discuss...

The real mistake in 'teen pregnancy'

2008-07-13 00:00:00

Given America's increasing obsession with teenage pregnancy over the last three decades, it's inevitable that sensational stories such as Gloucester High School's mythical pregnancy pact would generate a media frenzy. Ignited by Time magazine's June...

Lost in time in the Cotswolds

2007-04-18 19:53:01

PAINSWICK, England The main road through this picturesque village says a great deal about the timeless quality of the Cotswolds, a region of low, rolling hills in England's West Country. A vision of tranquil English village life, the street is lined...

Military deaths

2007-11-25 00:00:00

The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Iraq and Kuwait: Alejandro Ayala, 26, of Riverside; staff sergeant, Air Force. Ayala was killed Nov. 18 in a vehicle accident in Kuwait. He was assigned to...

A complex relationship with 'King Lear'

2007-10-23 15:06:00

October 24, 2007 With this piece, we introduce a series of occasional articles in which contemporary writers look back at classic works of literature. Here, Jack Lynch, the author of "Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a...

London revisited: The daughter's side of the story

2009-05-16 00:00:00

So here's what happens. My dad asks if I want to go to London with him, and I say, "Sure, chap, totally," and before I know it, I'm walking down this London street, Gloucester, which is pronounced Glowster for some reason. Like my dad, this whole...

See people frozen in time

2005-05-08 00:00:00

Cruise to the frozen North to see coastal fiords, glaciers, Arctic wildflowers, polar bears and whales on a 15-day Audubon Society voyage to the west coast of Greenland and Canada's Baffin Island. The Aug. 24 journey begins with one night in Ottawa,...

Chamomile, Komatsuna and Co.

1995-03-02 00:00:00

So how do you cook red amaranth? We love its leaves, with their spinach/pot-herb flavor, in clear broth with shreds of chicken or pork and rings of scallions. The red glow in the leaves seeps into the broth, turning it deep rose. I pick the leaves, also...

Bald eagle rescued in Gloucester returns to the wild

2013-05-17 19:56:00

GLOUCESTER — This eagle is now soaring again. After months of rehab, a male bald eagle, rescued by the Waynesboro-based Wildlife Center of Virginia, was released Friday back into the wild near Beaverdam Park. "We are here bringing your bird...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia released this once sick adult Bald Eagle at Beaverdam Park in Gloucester, Va..Ed Clark of the Wildlife Center of Virginia is trying to show the bird off the people before the release, but the Eagle wants to fly.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Charles and Mildred Thompson came from Gloucester to Cox High School in Virginia Beach to protest new tolls on area highways in 1990.

2013-01-03 00:00:00

, VA celebrate 49 years of marriage as they sit behind the Minne-Brass - the Minnesota Brass Inc.

2012-08-30 00:00:00