Hop Talk (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Beer is recession-proof, or so the conventional wisdom goes. People will cut down on a lot of things, but not their beer. Heck, without beer what would you have to cry into? Dennis Wehrmann of FRANCONIA Brewing Company is certainly banking on this. He was profiled in a recent issue of The Dallas Morning News. FRANCONIA owner [...]
snapped shot (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
What with all of the increase in "diversity" we've been seeing around Gerry Connolly's Fairfax County as of late—yes, largely due to "La Migra" from the increasingly pleasant Prince William County—I'm thinking that the County could rake in a cool half billion dollars from the FRANCONIA area alone : The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is considering adopting state law changes that will give its...
Heavenly Inclinations (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I was in a town today which is based on Christmas. It is one beautiful, glorious, and well, just perfect town. It is called Frankenmuth; The area was settled and named by conservative Lutheran immigrants from FRANCONIA (now part of Bavaria ), in 1845. The German word "Franken" represents the Province of FRANCONIA in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and the German word "Mut" means courage, thus the city name...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
World History connections to Europe, Summer 2008
DCist (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
WMATA has track work in one form or another planned for each and every Metro line this weekend. Take note of the following schedules and adjust your plans accordingly. Blue Line Expect delays of up to 30 minutes between the FRANCONIA-Springfield and Van Dorn Street stations due to track maintenance from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. tonight, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and again from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Saturday,...
Virginia Virtucon (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
While rising gas prices have spurred renewed talk about extending Metro to PWC, it won’t happen anytime soon. “I would love to have Metro here,” said Chairman Corey Stewart, R-at large. “But we do need to keep in mind the problems … I think we really need to keep our attention focused on the realistic solutions, [...]
Metroblogging DC (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
First off, if you’re a Nats fan headed to the game with the Orioles on Sunday, good luck. You’re hosed. Heads up to everyone travelling across the District this weekend: every single Metro line is seeing major track work and rail testing from Friday night through early Monday morning. Blue Line Sad to say, this one’s been hit [...]
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Okay, so now I’ve checked around some more, after someone asked me, “Have you tried Greyhound'” and I said, “Duh! No!” $43 round trip, takes me to the Springfield-FRANCONIA mall, four-tenths of a mile from the Metro station, which saves me the trouble of taking the train into Union Station and having to reverse course. Also, [...]
The Birdchaser (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
This is the last year of the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas project, and I still have a lot of holes in my assigned survey block, so yesterday I spent a few hours in the morning driving the roads around Souderton and FRANCONIA, in Montgomery County. No real surprises, but I was able to confirm breeding for a few more species, and find possible breeding Eastern Kingbirds in two places. Its fun to...
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
I just wanna do a plug for a good friend of mine, Jack McEnany. Check out his political blog Lost Nation. It's worth a visit. Jack's from FRANCONIA, NH and one of the funniest guys I've met. In some ways, he's like Philip Baruth... but on overdrive. Ironically, Lost Nation has a VDB feel to it too. Call him Baruth's alter ego. He just wrote his second book Brush Cat: On Trees, the Wood Economy, and...
