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If you’re ever in Biddeford, Maine, make Fish & Whistle your destination eatery
All too often, it seems, we find ourselves in situations and circumstances that put us “on the road again” – heading to other places in other states to take care of business, family or just to relax. Recently one such journey landed us in Saco, Maine, where we came across a delightful establishment located in nearby Biddeford called Fish & […] The post If you’re ever in Biddeford, Maine, make Fish & Whistle your destination eatery first appeared on The Piedmont Journal Recorder .
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This Humble Virginia Restaurant Has Been Serving Its Famous Fried Chicken Since 1955
Somewhere between Harrisonburg and the Maryland border, tucked into the small town of New Market, Virginia, there is a restaurant that has been quietly making people very happy for a very long time. Southern Kitchen doesn’t advertise itself with flashy gimmicks or a carefully curated Instagram presence. It advertises...
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Meet The Staunton Diner Where Pie Cases Stay Full And The Coffee Keeps Coming
Near the spot where two big Virginia interstates meet, a pie case has been pulling road-trippers off the highway for decades. Staunton is a small city with a long memory, and one of its best-known kitchens carries a family story that stretches back to the 1940s. Travelers have skipped familiar...
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This Massive Virginia Warehouse Is Hiding Over 500,000 Books – And Everything Is Up To 90% Off
Somewhere in the Shenandoah Valley, tucked along a rural road in Mt. Crawford, Virginia, there’s a warehouse that book lovers dream about in their sleep. The Green Valley Book Fair is the kind of place that makes you question every full-price book purchase you’ve ever made in your entire life.
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This Small-Town Virginia Diner Has Been Serving Up Legendary Comfort Food Since The 1980s
Some restaurants feed your stomach, but the best ones feed your soul, and Kathy’s in Staunton, Virginia does both with alarming efficiency. If you’ve never made the drive out to Staunton, you’re missing one of the most charming small cities in the entire Shenandoah Valley. It’s the...
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People Drive From All Over Virginia For The Fried Chicken At This Classic Roadside Restaurant
There are very few things in this world worth driving an hour out of your way for, and Southern Kitchen in New Market, Virginia is absolutely one of them. If fried chicken could win a popularity contest, this place would have been class president since 1955. Let’s start with the...
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Buc-ee’s vs. Wawa: A Philly Fan’s Honest Review of the South’s Most Hyped Convenience Store
What happens when a die-hard Wawa fan spends nearly five hours driving to check out the South’s most hyped convenience store?. Stephanie Farr of The Philadelphia Inquirer made exactly that trip and came back with plenty of thoughts. Farr’s destination was the 74,000-square-foot Buc-ee’s in Mount Crawford, Va., a...
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Luray cook offering ‘world class’ chili
October 8, 1990 — A well-known Luray chili cook recently escalated to the world class level. Hilda Wimpfen will compete at the 24th annual international chili cookoff in Terlingua, Texas, Nov.3. “She’s the first chili cook in Luray to become a world class cook,” said Mrs. Wimpfen’s husband, Sheldon....
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Staunton horror author Todd Brown once thought baseball was his future
It wasn't until he was in eighth grade that Todd Brown discovered the joys of reading. Once he did, it became one of his passions. Not long after that he found a love of writing also, but it wasn't an activity that his parents encouraged. Sports was his main focus at the time. The family believed that would be his path to success. And, for a while, that seemed to be the case. Todd Brown was a star athlete in high school in Florida and played baseball in college, including at the University of Florida. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1994 Major League Baseball draft, but never made it past the minor leagues. The closest he came to making the majors was a spring training stint with San Diego. "I just couldn't hit," he said. "I wasn't good enough. And when I was in San Diego I was there with guys like Wally Joyner and Rickey Henderson and some of those guys. I was like, 'What am I doing?'" He felt he could stick around the minor leagues for a few more years, but decided maybe it was best to take the next step in his