Pleasant Living Magazine

Mathews Market Days Committee has approved a five hundred dollar prize for its 2010 poster contest, according to Chairman Art Dubey.  This years' theme is "A Treasure Of Mathews".  All artist are welcomed to submit entries; the contest is not limited to county residents.

During my younger years, when the responsibilities and demands of life weren’t so pressing, winter was a great time for burying myself in books.  Even in elementary and junior high school, while I was pretending to study, my mother would discover that I had another, more interesting, book inside my math textbook. She was baffled by this, as she was not a reader and didn’t understand the pleasure, but she would laugh and remind me that I would fail math, which I did.

I hope you don’t have to read in secret, and I certainly don’t want you to fail at anything—but I recommend that you retreat from the pressures while the snow falls outside and bury yourself in some good reading—perhaps on our evolving website, where, piece by piece, we are reconstructing PL’s past. Since 1989, we’ve been cranking out a rich history of the River Country—essays, profiles, and features on everything from crows and buzzards to Williamsburg’s restoration. Although there is a score of collectors who have kept every issue since we began, much of PL’s editorial history from the early days will be lost unless we preserve it digitally, so we have begun the process of capturing the past online, issue by issue.

Right now, you can visit our growing archives and find the following issues of PL preserved in space:

Summer 1989, featuring Chesapeake Bay Preservation.  Find out what the perspective was 21 years ago.

Fall 1989, featuring an inside look at the deluge of growth in Gloucester County.

Winter 1990, featuring a “Northern Necker in Old Town Fredericksburg” – a narrative tour of one of the most interesting small towns in River Country.

Spring 1990, featuring “Williamsburg, A Study in Contrasts” and Stratford Hall’s Glamorous Coaching Day – 20 years ago!

You’ll note that our covers for these issues are in color – long before PL’s shift to our new brand of black and white.

Currently, our archives are available to the public, but in the coming months, we will be restricting our archives to Preferred Readers only.  We hope you’ll become a Preferred Reader so you can enjoy this journey through the past.

Here’s the link to our archives.  Stay inside and enjoy!

Robert Pruett, Publisher

The Virginia Holocaust Museum was founded in 1997 to educate future generations on the dangers of intolerance. As part of that mission, the Museum is constantly working to bring new and innovative programs to the Richmond community.

FIRST THEY CAME....Speaking Out Against Genocide

April17, 2010

We are proud to bring together activists, scholars, witnesses, and survivors of modern genocide to discuss what all of us can do to stop these atrocities. This year's program will focus on the violence projected towards women and children in conflict areas.

The program will feature guest speakers Dr. Lee Ann De Reus, Niemat Ahmadi, Awer Bul, and Dr. Gregory Stanton.