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With Good Reason | Arts

Ghost Lights

The doors closed months ago, but the show must go on.

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With Good Reason | Science

The Art of Space

Skip to show segment MOXIE Bob Ash (Old Dominion University) In the blockbuster hit, The Martian, Matt Damon escapes Mars by using a spacecraft based on real-life technology created years …

Stories | Technology, Theater, TV/Movies
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Fellowships | Books & Literature, History

Jamestown & Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’

By Nora Pehrson Hannah Wojciehowski is a Virginia Humanities Fellow in Residence this fall researching the connection between the Virginia Company’s venture in Jamestown and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Hannah teaches …

Stories | 17th Century, Fiction, Theater
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Grants | History

From the Archives to the Stage

By David Bearinger Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Pitts was born into slavery near Onancock, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In 1853, she married Parker Pitts, a free man, although the state did …

Stories | Civil War, Theater, Women
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