Blue Ridge Country magazine editor Cara Ellen Modisett grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was introduced to the magazine by her uncle, an attorney and photographer, when she was in college.
The first harbingers of fall: The students are coming back to school, packing cars and heading to Virginia Tech and Radford University and Roanoke College and Hollins, meeting roommates and buying textbooks. I miss being a student at this time of year, and next week I'll get a little dose of it as I sit in on my first lecture class in... well, more than a decade.
That class will be Bud Robertson's Civil War lecture, a class that usually enrolls about 300 students (yes, 300 college students clamoring to take a class in late 19th-century American history!). I'm not staying long enough to take a quiz or write a paper, just long enough to see how he and his students start the semester.
