Back in the 1870s, a little town sprouted up around a railroad stop on Wayland’s farm.

“I watched it many times before I ever tried out for the production,” said Fraeyman, who’s in her third year with the show.

Madison’s annual celebration will put art in the spotlight

Summer is over. So go ahead and wine a little.

Or a lot.

The four-man group — along with a supporting cast of more than 10 people — will be singing and dancing at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, when their “Go Bananas Live” tour comes to Charlottesville.

Kings Dominion plans to build the tallest and fastest roller coaster of its type on the East Coast next spring, the park announced this morning.

“It’s a far cry from what people expect coming out of a field kitchen,“ said Louis Perrotte, a Florida chef and restaurant owner who was among the judges in white jackets for the Field Cooking Competition in which the Fort Bragg team competed.

To the delight of hundreds, Col. Grigg Mullen of Virginia Military Institute was in town with his trebuchet, a reproduction of a medieval-style weapon.

Craghead, Mallman lead final Migration show

Grad student finds time and places to display her works

Waynesboro center shows the ‘Found and Faux’ art

PVCC will light up the night with its one-night-only art installation

Last hurrah for 2008

“Hawaii has traditionally been associated with sun, sand, recreation and leisure, and now we have the person in the highest office in the country,“ she said. “So it gives Hawaii greater credibility as well as visibility.“

Rappahannock artists offer a tour

Annual workshop helps parents promote the arts

When the 21st-annual Virginia Film Festival opens Oct. 30 with its “Aliens!” theme, Charlottesville will be the landing zone for films and discussions about immigrants, exiles, extraterrestrials and outsiders of all kinds.

Second Street Gallery selects new director

Piedmont Virginia Community College is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its V. Earl Dickinson Building for Humanities and Social Sciences with an open house from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Mark your calendars — and don’t pack your flip-flops away just yet. Fans can head to the John Paul Jones Arena on Feb. 21, 2009, to chase away winter’s chill with some sizzling beach volleyball.

UVa holds reception for two exhibitions

Kluge-Ruhe offers new art, new hours

Asian elephants, white tigers and the gravity-defying Wheel of Steel will fill the John Paul Jones Arena when Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey’s “Boom a Ring’’ arrives for performances on Dec. 11, 12, 13 and 14

Panels, micro add spice to August

Parkway needs your photo

The University of Virginia’s unique collection of Aboriginial Art has grown even larger, thanks to a $1.3 million gift from John and Tussi Kluge.

Read along with N.Y. Times critic

“Unquestionably the most important of the early first ladies.”

Hartz will begin work in August at JSMA, the largest museum between Portland, Ore., and San Francisco.

Dapper Southern gentility mixed with frat antics and dress: men in blue seersuckers, pink shirts with pastel green ties; women in floral, wallpaper-like sundresses.