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Mitchells, VA · Arts & Culture
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More than 100 Pumpkins Will Light Up Franconia at Annual Pumpkin IllumiNIGHT
The region is full of fall traditions, whether it’s taking an annual visit to one of the pumpkin patches or finding the best fall treats. But, one of the most iconic traditions is Nalls Produce & Garden Center’s annual Pumpkin IllumiNIGHT. Each year, the family-owned business invites pumpkin...
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Before the Exorcist: The Lutheran Connection to a 1949 St. Louis Mystery
A statue of Martin Luther stands on the campus of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. Originally dedicated in 1903 and relocated to the seminary's present campus in 1926, the monument commemorates the German reformer whose teachings established Lutheranism. In 1949, seminary president Dr. Louis J. Sieck and the Rev. Alfred Doerffler reportedly attempted an exorcism involving a Maryland teenager whose experiences later inspired the novel and film The Exorcist. (Photo courtesy of Gary Todd, via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Out of the Attic: New Freedom House exhibition invites you into Monday Robinson’s life
The Freedom House Museum at 1315 Duke St. invites you to view a new traveling exhibition, “Monday Robinson: A Life of Thorns and Roses.”. The exhibition opened at Freedom House on Oct. 22 and will run through Dec. 31. Belle Grove Plantation, located in Middletown, Virginia, initially created and opened the exhibition in September.
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The Exorcist: Father Karras’ Off-Duty Georgetown Jacket and Fall Layers
Jason Miller as Fr. Damien Karras, Jesuit psychiatrist and—according to at least one demonic entity—”faithless slime”. Progressing deeper through spooky season toward Halloween, let’s look at some understated style in William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic The Exorcist. Playwright and actor Jason Miller made his Academy Award-nominated screen debut as Damien Karras, SJ, the theological psychiatrist summoned to exorcise a demon from the 12-year-old Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair).
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Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton builds glass-blowing hot shop
As a second-generation glass blower, Ian Schmidt has never lost the wonder of seeing molten glass harden into art. “Working with your hands is a language,” Schmidt said. That language took him from earning his allowance in his parents’ workshop to blowing glass for the Corning Museum of Glass to directing the ceramics and glass department at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton.