Welcome! You're visiting the premier, online source for a wide variety of current, accurate, and practical information about scenic, historic and cultural attractions in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. • The National Weather Service says Winter Storm Warning for 6 to 12 inches of snow in effect until 4 p.m. Wednesday. Feb. 10, 2010: Dolphin documentary film at Magic Lantern Theater in Winchester, Va. The Magic Lantern Theater continues its season at Handley Library with the critically praised 2009 American documentary, "The Cove," which exposes the covert slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Not rated. It will be shown in the Handley Library auditorium, 100 W.Piccadilly St., Winchester at 7 p.m., Wednesday, February 10 and 2 p.m., Saturday, February 13. Showings are free and open to the public; donations appreciated. More events |  | Feb. 10, 2010: Changing Exhibition Gallery exhibit at Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Come In and Have a Seat: Vernacular Chairs of the Shenandoah Valley tells the story of chairmaking that created heirlooms with a distinctive regional design. Shenandoah Valley ladder-back, Windsor and fancy chairs are featured, along with a chairmaker's workshop on loan from the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Va., chair puzzles that visitors can assemble and reproduction chairs to sit down upon and try out. The exhibit runs through June 20. More events |  | Feb. 11, 2010: Twelth Night Performance At The Blackfriars Playhouse Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Show times continue on Thursday, February 11 (10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) Saturday, February 13 (7:30 p.m.-10 p.m.) Thursday, February 18 (10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) Sunday, February 21 (2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) Thursday, February 25 (10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) Saturday, February 27 (2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) The price of admission is $11-$40. More events |  | |
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Old Opera House theater a Charles Town classic |
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Charles Town, W.Va. owes its roots to a surveyor named George Washington, who in 1786 thought that the spot had potential. He told his brother Charles that it may be a good idea to buy up some of the land there.
Charles took his brother's advice, then laid out his town lots on a couple of new streets. To this day, the center of town is at the intersection of George and Washington Streets.
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Earl Hargrove, Presidential Prop Man |
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Earl C. Hargrove, Jr. recalls when the opportunity to buy a cave in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley had presented itself, it took him all of about five seconds to go for it, even though he had not a clue about what it actually took to operate the spectacular caverns attraction that had first opened to the public in 1922.
He first saw Shenandoah Caverns in the 1950s, after some friends, whom at that time had purchased the cave property, asked him to come up and give them advice about how to make the caverns more attractive to the public.
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