The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is returning to Winchester on April 26th to May 5th.
Find out more »Join us at Union Jack Pub & Restaurant for the Annual OTW Wine Festival. We will be featuring ALL DAY HAPPY HOUR on SELECT WINE by the glass & bottle. Not big on Wine- Not to worry- UJP has you covered!; Stop in to try out a Specialty Draft from our Ever – Revolving 38...
Find out more »Join us for our Grand Opening! It is also Local Yarn Shop Day! Fun to be had by all. Door prizes and food!
Find out more »Exclusive IBD Items Free Snacks & LOTS of FUN SHOP-WIDE SCAVENGER HUNT 12 hours to Find It All Prizes for Everyone 5 GRAND PRIZES COMMUNITY COLORING & other activities all day, too! The Winchester Book Gallery will also offer exclusive day-of merchandise created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors. Since its...
Find out more »A is for Alligator, B is for Bear, and so on, right? Not in this book. The odd animals are taking over! It's time to meet Aye-Aye, Fossa, Numbat, Xenops and more curious, yet real animals that are ready for their spotlight. Laugh along as they introduce the letters of the alphabet in their own...
Find out more »At the beginning of the Civil War, Federal troops secured Alexandria as Union territory. Former slaves, called contrabands, poured in to obtain protection from their former masters. Due to overcrowding, mortality rates were high. Authorities seized an undeveloped parcel of land on South Washington Street, and by March 1864, it had been opened as a...
Find out more »Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" to the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board decision of 1954. The editorial pages of the local family-owned newspaper, The Farmville Herald, led the fight to lock classrooms rather than integrate them. The school system remained closed until the fall...
Find out more »NEW TITLES ABOUT ADOPTION AND FOSTERING Counting Down - When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. In Counting Down, Gold tells the story of...
Find out more »New York based CELTIC ROCK BAND, BANGERS & MASH, are performing at Brewbakers in Winchester on Saturday April 27th at 9:30 PM - 168 N Loudoun St, Winchester, VA 22601 Bangers & Mash are a group of professional session players that got together to form this group due to their mutual love of Celtic Music a...
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