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Quick and painless: A trip to City Hall could be the ticket! Published on Feb 12th, 2004 0 comments
Your parents have their hearts set on a traditional Catholic wedding back home in Rhode Island. His folks are hoping you'll come on down to Baton Rouge for a Baptist revival. What to do, what to do?...
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Then and now: Couples recall popped questions Published on Feb 12th, 2004 0 comments
Judging from the following stories, whether you're newlywed or married nearly 40 years, one thing in marriage is constant: You don't forget the way you got engaged. We asked some well-known locals to...
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Wedding intro Published on Feb 12th, 2004 0 comments
The months of planning. Sweating over the details. Getting The Hook's wedding issue to the stand is, well, a little bit like planning a wedding. In the following pages, you'll find engagement tales...
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Well groom-ed: How to keep your honey happy Published on Feb 12th, 2004 0 comments
So it's happening. The proposal was accepted.
(Don't hold her to remembering the actual words. Sure, you sweated over them for weeks, and now she just says, "It was a joyful blur." That's okay, get...
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Wild 'n' wacky: Wedding tales from the field Published on Feb 12th, 2004 0 comments
Dan Patterson
Patterson's Florist
Patterson's Florist handles its share of roses, lilies, and tulips, but for couples who want something a bit more unusual, Dan Patterson says he has the...
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Moving a mountain: How Monticello got Montalto back Published on Feb 5th, 2004 0 comments
"What a view!" says U.S. Senator George Allen, who lived on Brown's Mountain in the 1970s while attending UVA's School of Law. "There's no other place where you can drive down a mountain and say...
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Repose here: Brown's mountain goes way back Published on Feb 5th, 2004 0 comments
Height: 1,278 feet
Acreage: 330.462 acres
2004 price: $15 million
1974 price: $601,783
1832 price: $5,110
1777 price: £190
Patented: 1730 (part of 9,350 acres from the king to John Carter)
Rental...
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This boy's lawsuit: Alan Newsom's $150,000 t-shirt Published on Jan 29th, 2004 0 comments
Alan Newsom looks like a pretty typical 13-year-old. He wears standard eighth-grade garb– the backwards baseball cap, baggy, low-slung jeans, and a t-shirt.
It's the latter item of...
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Extreme makeover: Ordinance offers city a new look Published on Jan 22nd, 2004 0 comments
PHOTOS BY JEN FARIELLO
On ABC's reality show Extreme Makeover, contestants who've never had to worry about winning beauty contests retreat for a six-week ultimate makeover, generally including...
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In the zone: The new ordinance and you Published on Jan 22nd, 2004 0 comments
The requirements of the new zoning ordinance may fall primarily on architects and developers, but if you live within city limits, the new law affects you too. Here's how:
City residents, with...
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Kuttner's conundrum: 'Bad boy' blasts the new law Published on Jan 22nd, 2004 0 comments
The mayor jokingly calls him the "bad boy" and credits him with anticipating some of today's now City-sanctioned trends of mixing uses and densifying downtown. But while the creative developments of...
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Flavor country: Not here in Albemarle Published on Jan 15th, 2004 0 comments
When we went in search of any local tobacco farmers, we hit a dead end very quickly. "To my knowledge," says local agricultural expert Emmett Boaz, "tobacco has not been grown commercially in...
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Tax me: 12 cents a pack in Charlottesville Published on Jan 15th, 2004 0 comments
In 1993, anyone buying cigarettes in the city limits had the chance– nay the duty– to contribute to City Hall. The Charlottesville cigarette tax made its debut at 12 cents a pack. But as...
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Why? Weight, moods prompt women to puff Published on Jan 15th, 2004 0 comments
Caren Chesler, 40, is no dummy. She's well aware of the health risks associated with smoking: She even lost her father to a form of esophageal cancer thought to be linked to cigarettes. Yet she...
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Tobacco town: Smokers, sellers defy Healthville docs Published on Jan 15th, 2004 0 comments
"Crops may fail, commerce stagnate, wars devastate the country, banks suspend specie payment, and wives fret and scold, yet our people will chew and spit, smoke and puff, snuff and sneeze."–...
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Linked up: Museum adds sparkle to Star City Published on Jan 8th, 2004 0 comments
The Star City is about to get a jewel.
On January 10, Roanoke officials will join railroad buffs in cutting the opening ribbon for a new museum showcasing the stunning photographic achievements of...
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Bye-bye, Staunton: Daytrip quashed by NYC extension Published on Jan 8th, 2004 0 comments
While Roanoke will soon gain a railroad dream in the form of the new O. Winston Link Museum, Charlottesville rail buffs recently experienced a sort of nightmare. In May, train-lovin' families lost...
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Hell-mates: Sad tale of Winston and Conchita Published on Jan 8th, 2004 0 comments
The final years of the world's foremost railroad photographer were not all peaceful. O. Winston Link, the man who chronicled rural life and steam trains, spent nearly a year in the early 1990s as a...
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Maybe someday: Amtrak disses Roanoke (for now) Published on Jan 8th, 2004 0 comments
A railroad helped turn a little town called Big Lick into a major rail city called Roanoke. But one thing is still missing: passengers.
After the Norfolk & Western Railway was born from the...
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COVER SIDEBOX- Winston himself: Portrait of the artist Published on Jan 8th, 2004 0 comments
O. Winston Link; the "O" stands for Ogle
Born: December 16, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York
Died: January 30, 2001, outside a train station (really!) in Katonah, New York. Driving to a doctor's office,...
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COVER SIDEBOX- Station celebration: O. Winston Link Museum Published on Jan 8th, 2004 0 comments
Organizing curator: Tom Garver, an art historian and former Link agent who assisted Link on three photo/sound junkets in the late 1950s
Museum manager: John M. "Jay" Saunders Jr.
Location: Former N...
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The year in review Published on Dec 25th, 2003 0 comments
As we settled into the new millennium and adjusted to a new world order, that day in September 2001 continued to determine the events of 2003.
War, of course, was the big news, whether you were for...
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Say what?: What's your resolution for 2004? Published on Dec 25th, 2003 0 comments
Matt Schaub, quarterback
"To make my bed every morning when I wake up."
Felicia Rogan, winemeister
"To keep my glass half full."
Lou Bloomfield, physics professor...
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Extra-curricular: 'School' didn't keep Waldo home Published on Dec 18th, 2003 0 comments
Waldo Jaquith
Where's Waldo? As noted in a recent Hook story, Charlottesville's most famous ex-home-schooled child is now a 25-year-old man studying at Virginia Tech.
But in the many years that...
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Home for the holidays: And every other day, too Published on Dec 18th, 2003 0 comments
Published December 18, 2003 in issue #0250 of the Hook
Caryn Hamilton and son Ellis
For those who view homework as that nightly race between parent and child to see who will begin banging their...
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Art in face: Are they artsy or just plain fartsy? Published on Dec 11th, 2003 0 comments
Published December 11, 2003 in issue #0249 of The Hook
Surely you have a favorite: Maybe it was the fighting lions who menaced the median of the 250 bypass last year. Or perhaps it's the bicyclist,...
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Best defense: Artists have federal law behind them Published on Dec 11th, 2003 0 comments
Note to vandals: The next time you think about destroying a piece of art, consider that, in addition to criminal charges, you could be facing a lawsuit from the artist– even if the artist no...
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City shopping: what the government bought Published on Dec 11th, 2003 0 comments
2001 - The Biker on McIntire Road by Richard Whitehill
2002 Metallice Glosserous on Preston Avenue by Rod Marshall-Roth
2003 King Alfred & His Court on Monticello Avenue near the I-64...
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Reaction: "Oooohs" and "Ewwws" for ArtInPlace Published on Dec 11th, 2003 0 comments
PHOTOS BY JEN FARIELLO JENFARIELLO@RLC.NET
The old adage "beauty's in the eye of the beholder" is illustrated perfectly by the artinplace project. Where one person sees twisted trash, another sees...
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Alien art: 'Just satire' on Park Street Published on Dec 11th, 2003 0 comments
By now you'd be hard-pressed to find a person who hasn't noticed at least one of the ArtInPlace sculptures. But how about the "Art Out Of Place" sculpture?
The nine-foot-tall plywood sculpture, also...
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