Crow’s Nest Natural Area Preserve to host Spring Field Day April 30
Crow’s Nest Natural Area Preserve in Stafford County will be open for its Spring Field Day Saturday, April 30. Guided hikes and natural history interpretation will take place at 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and Stafford County are sponsors of the event.
Crow’s Nest is an especially unique property in Virginia’s Natural Area Preserve System. At 2,872 acres, it contains 60 percent of the county’s marshes, as well as a globally rare upland forest community. Nesting bald eagles and more than 60 species of migratory songbirds can be seen at the preserve in the spring. Wildflowers also are in bloom.
BC professor’s opera to premiere on May 5
Eros and Psyche, an opera by Larry Taylor, associate professor of music at Bridgewater College, will premier at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, in the Carter Center for Worship and Music.
Eros and Psyche, an opera in two acts on a libretto by Tom Noe, an Indiana-based poet and playwright, is based on the Eros/Psyche myth in which the god of love falls tragically in love with the most beautiful woman in the world.
Author of Virtually You to speak at Bridgewater College
Elias Aboujaoude, author of Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, will speak on Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.
Aboujaoude, a Stanford University psychiatrist and director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic and the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic, has conducted a study on Internet addiction and has treated patients whose lives have been disturbed by their cyber lifestyle. His talk examines the effects of the virtual world and what he calls the “big social experiment” people engage in online.
Book signing at Bookworks to feature Churchville Civil War story
April 19, 1861, was probably the most important, exciting, and scary day that residents of Churchville had ever experienced.
Some 52 local men were in the St. James Methodist Church yard organizing as a cavalry unit for the brand new Confederate Army. The village would have been crowded with people, horses, wagons and buggies … but these men, many poorly armed and equipped, were volunteering to go to war.
Highway markers cover 400-plus years of Virginia history
From the first Poles to arrive in Virginia in 1608 to the life of painter “Grandma” Moses in the Shenandoah Valley, new historical highway markers approved by the state’s Department of Historic Resources cover a variety of topics, including signs highlighting the War of 1812.
The marker titled “First Poles Arrive,” honoring the first Polish natives to arrive in Jamestown, will be erected near the historic English settlement, in James City County. Recruited by the Virginia Company, Polish craftsmen in Jamestown “contributed to the development of a glass factory and the production of potash, naval stores, and wood products” and were praised for “their work ethic” by Captain John Smith, according to the recently approved marker text.
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