CHARLES CITY — When the Pilgrims left England aboard the Mayflower on Sept. 6, 1620, they were already late for the first official Thanksgiving observed by the English in the New World. On Dec. 4, ...

Have you ever been to the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City? I went to the annual event for the first time. It takes place on the first Sunday in November. The step ...

Ahead of Thanksgiving, some may think of food, family and often, Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The truth is people should be thinking local on Thanksgiving. Along Route 5 in Charles City County ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Get ready for the annual Virginia Thanksgiving Festival! On Sunday, Nov. 5 th, thousands of people are expected to take a step back in history to commemorate America’s First ...

As a young man, I often received correspondence from Dr. Fred Woodlief, a dentist on Chamberlayne Avenue in Richmond. He was involved in the Woodlief Family Association and made me aware that an ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Get ready for the 60th Virginia Thanksgiving Festival! On Sunday, Nov. 6, thousands of people are expected to take a step back in history to commemorate America’s First Thanksgiving ...

President Bush this morning toured the Central Virginia Foodbank in Richmond, where he honored a volunteer worker and briefly helped place canned food into a cart for distribution. He then departed ...

Sad Thanksgiving is over? You can celebrate again next week. Thanksgiving typically conjures up images of Pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down for a feast at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, but ...

The hilltop mansion at Berkeley Plantation has a sweeping view of American history, if you’re still into that sort of thing. English colonists settled the land along the James River a year before ...

CHARLES CITY — The James River Association and other project partners celebrated completing a living shoreline project at the privately owned Berkeley Plantation in Charles City on June 27. It’s the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As the first permanent settlement established by colonists upon their arrival in North America, it’s only natural that Virginia is home to some centuries-old architecture. There ...