Sunday Books & Culture – Music

Chuck Sekinger takes us to the stage at Colonial Tavern for the Fredericksburg Jazz Collective’s most recent jam session. Learn what happened, and how you can experience next month’s session.

Sunday Books & Culture – Review

Penny A Parrish explores the connections between a London Bookshop, a mysterious woman and her lost love, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in an engaging piece of historical fiction by Louise Fein.

Music Review: THE FREDERICKSBURG JAZZ COLLECTIVE

So you live in Fredericksburg, and you think it’s a “jazz desert,” with the closest clubs like Blues Alley 60 miles away in DC or like Keystone Corner 100 miles away in Baltimore? Think again. Jazz is alive and well in Fredericksburg. The Fredericksburg Jazz Collective (FJC) is a nonprofit organization that hosts an open mic jam […]

Book Review: The London Bookshop Affair by Louise Fein

With the popularity of the movie “Oppenheimer,” stories and memories of the impact of nuclear weapons are once again topics of conversation. In this book, readers will be taken to a time in 1962 when the world stood on the brink of annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We begin in February 1942 with Jeannie, […]

Kerr: Stafford County Has a Severe Problem with Food Insecurity

Stafford County, with a population 145,000, ranks 15th in the state in terms of per capita income (there are 134 counties and cities in Virginia), and nationally comes in at 19th in median income.  These are two indicators that imply a thriving and healthy economic picture.  Certainly not one where there would be a serious food insecurity […]