Gillian Holliday, 34, begins a new monthly Culpeper News column today. 

Let’s get right to this week’s questions. Q: What can I do to make the most of a trip to the veterinarian?

One of the lesser known grapes that I have come to enjoy is Tannat.

Here at the Piedmont Volunteer Center, connecting organizations with volunteers is our mission. 

Farmer’s Market continues to grow in former downtrodden area.

Even in the swankiest of settings, there will always be someone without class.

The original question was, “Can one advocate for the preservation of what was and be a progressive thinker?” It is time now to answer that reoccurring conundrum or at least give it a hearty effort.

With summer around the corner and, gas prices rising sometimes twice in a day, a family vacation might not be on the list of things to do.

ALASKA! Everything’s bigger up there. Forget Texas.

In my never ending quest to find something vaguely related to the equine world to write about each week, I tend to travel far and wide to find something I can make a story out of.

Being that Washington, D.C. is one of the world’s cultural and historical hotspots, it comes as no surprise that the city is an ideal spot for a museum devoted to news.

During the past few weeks, you have indulged me while I dissected the basic tenets of “history;” breaking the subject into three parts. 

Over the past 23 years, it has been my privilege to conduct hundreds of tours of Civil War sites in Culpeper County for thousands of visitors from all over our country — as well as intrepid folks hailing from foreign shores.

Being that Washington, D.C. is one of the world’s cultural and historical hotspots, it comes as no surprise that the city is an ideal spot for a museum devoted to news.

Well this is it. AP exams are finishing and graduation is only one month away. 

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how good we have it. 

One of the most popular requests for Ireland is the self-drive program. 

On the weekend of April 11-13, we had our very successful second annual Ms. Wheelchair Virginia Program at WWRC

A few weeks ago I met up with some Army recruiters to talk to college students about opportunities in the military.

I spent this past weekend completely immersed in a tale of the American Civil War, the Battle of the Wilderness to be specific.

This island paradise, in the Gulf Stream, is the northern most coral reef in the Atlantic Ocean with a nautical history spanning more than 500 years. 

“You look like you already have skin cancer,” my friend told me Sunday.

This line of work gets dirty. It’s not all sitting behind a desk.

The first thing you notice is the natural light. It floods down halls from huge exterior windows. It streams down from skylights. It washes into classrooms from both exterior and interior portals. 

Several times this column has discussed the importance of regular laboratory screenings as part of routine physical examinations. This past week, three patients in my practice were dramatic reminders of the incredible benefit of routine blood testing. 

Let me say first, that I am not an apologist for Culpeper County Public Schools although, to be completely transparent, my wife does work at the central office.

Do you want to give your child a great start? Do you want your child to succeed in reading and writing? How about math, science, and geography? 

Do you realize that the oldest living person just turned 115 years of age?

More than 20 years ago when I first began researching Culpeper’s rich Civil War history, I was fortunate to meet a truly memorable lady—a lady in the truest sense of that distinguished term. It is a fact that Sallie Ratrie Witten, the matriarch of Auburn, helped set the model for Culpeper graciousness, geniality and unselfishness of spirit. 

Last week we opened Pandora’s Box with a question, “What is more important, the storyteller, the story itself, or the telling of it?”