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Cara Ellen ModisettBlue 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.

After graduating from James Madison University in 1998, she took an internship at Blue Ridge Country and joined the staff a few months later. Besides her work at BRC, she also reports for WVTF public radio and performs as a classical pianist.

Online, you can reach Cara through e mail, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and on Twitter, @brceditor. Offline, she lives in Roanoke, VA with her husband and their two cats. 

Reading the War

Reading the War

Grow up in the south and of course the Civil War never leaves you. I grew up hearing about how our grandfather's Shenandoah Valley barn was burned and rebuilt, and taking school trips to the New Market battlefield (I was intensely jealous of a classmate who actually stumbled across a bullet on the field, maybe turned up by rain or something, not discovered for more than a century since so many were killed there). It's that scar in 19th century history, four awful years when two percent of the nation's population died too young. It's an architectural dividing mark – houses may be antebellum, or postbellum. (Interesting how disaster and tragedy divides the age and character of buildings in some places – in London, houses are only really old if they're pre-1666, the year of the Great Fire.)

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Independent Cinema: Looking Up

Independent Cinema: Looking Up

My husband and I rounded the corner from Pop's Ice Cream last Saturday night to see Jason Garnett up on a ladder, replacing a fluorescent in the Grandin Theatre marquee. "One bulb was a 'daylight' bulb and the rest were 'cool white,'" he explained later,...

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Comfort Food and Sauerkraut Cake

Comfort Food and Sauerkraut Cake
I wonder if casserole is as common among northerners as it is in the south, I asked my Port Jervis- born, Milford-Newton-Long-Island-Newburg-Chinatown-schooled, Fordham-graduated* husband.
I’m sure they’re as popular up there as they are here, he figu...
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On the Page: First Blog

On the Page: First Blog

 

These days, so many people are lamenting the disappearance of handwritten letters and hours-long conversations, overcome by the power of e mail, text messages and IM. Face-to-face relationships have devolved to Facebook "friend"ships. Tangents, anal...

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