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.
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.
Today I drove up the valley from Roanoke, following modern interstate 81 from the southern Shenandoah all the way through West Virginia and Maryland to Pennsylvania, to Gettysburg, the site of some of the bloodiest fighting in the American Civil War. I'm attending the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership's conference, seeking out interesting material for our November/December Civil War issue and interviewing some attending writers and historians.
Photographer Bill Robertson has been after me for a few years to go on a hike with him. He’s good friends with another of our contributing photographers, Ben Geer Keys, and I can only imagine the conversations the two of them must have on their weekly ...
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 classmat...
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,...
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...
