Category: PLACE

  • “Crime Wave” hits Charlottesville again!

    My favorites at the Virginia Festival of the Book are the Crime Wave programs together with the Book Fair in the Omni Hotel. This year was better than ever! I especially enjoyed meeting Tracy Kiely, a graduate of my Alma Mater, Trinity College of Washington, DC, at Murder, Murder Everywhere.  I am looking forward to…

  • My 2010 post about McIntire Botanical Garden

    As I was thinking back over my years of involvement with McIntire Botanical Garden, I came upon this post from June 2010 and decided to repost it now as we are very close to having our own “living classroom.”  In the next few months, the City of Charlottesville will host public meetings to gather input…

  • Design firms for McIntire Park East are named

    Just imagine! We all have the opportunity to get involved as the first ever botanical garden in Charlottesville and the new skate park are being designed.  What would you like to see in the botanical garden?  I hope for an area focused on native plants and butterflies, but you may have some other suggestions.

  • Digital Scrapbooking – WordPress, Cvillepedia, Wayback Machine – Lasting history of Jackson-Via ES in Cville

    In 2009  a class at WriterHouse on WordPress publishing got me interested in an after-school computer club at Jackson-Via Elementary School.  One thing led to another and soon

  • Searching for Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama? Find it on the WayBack Machine!

    I realized recently that the ruthk.net website had outlived it usefulness, so I took it down and mapped the domain to this WordPress blog.  In addition to hosting websites for several non-profit organizations,  the ruthk.net web space hosted some Judson WebCenter websites that had been located on the old home.judson.edu server before the makeover in…

  • Catch the CAT!

    Many residents of Willoughby Townes and Longwood chose our neighborhoods for convenience and walkability.  In nice weather a walk to the Downtown Mall or to UVa Grounds is a healthy, pleasant diversion, but in bad weather … ?  The new  CAT bus schedule is a huge bonus for all of us in the Charlottesville Fry’s…