Pets

• Pet notes for May 17 (Last modified: 05/17/08)

• Pets up for Adoption (Last modified: 05/17/08)

Local History

• UMW centennial calendar for May 17 (Last modified: 05/17/08)

Gardening

• THIS WEEK IN UMW HISTORY Week of May 17 (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• "True North," and other adventure books inspire us to aim higher. By Paul Sullivan (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• Make hay while the cell phone shines. By Donnie Johnston (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• Can we puny human beings really change the environment of this colossal planet Earth? By Jim Kundreskas (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• Bill Kauffman's "Ain't My America," with his rich prose, makes a good point about the meaning of patriotism. By Alan Pell Crawford/Book Review (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• Like a comic-book hero, the star of TV's "24" provides hours of breathless thrills. By John B. Amos (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• By Russ Smith (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• The weather has caused some early blossoming this year. By Tony P. Wrenn (Last modified: 05/17/08)

Flashback

• Some things don't change and Carl's is one of them (Last modified: 05/17/08)

Cover Story

• Besides being beautiful, Kenmore's many gardens give visitors a sense of the site's 18th- and 19th-century heritage, as well as the art of garden restoration (Last modified: 05/17/08)
• Fredericksburg's Kenmore provided inspiration for Virginia's Historic Garden Week in 1929, and was the first major historic garden restoration by The Garden Club of Virginia (Last modified: 05/17/08)

Civil War

• Civil War Calendar for May 17 (Last modified: 05/17/08)