It was my annual saddest day of the year — the longest time before any return to the Outer Banks.
- Home
- InsideNoVa Culpeper - Culpeper Times
- Columnists
- Marshall Plan
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
In the first few minutes of the George Floyd arrest video, there was cruelty and abuse of power. The calm familiarity of soon-to-be fired Minneapolis Policeman Derek Chauvin’s plan of action was sadly apparent.
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
Over the last two months a pandemic has tested our will and wits. We search for the best ways to overcome the COVID-19 virus — a most complex, invisible and adaptive foe.
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
The most disconcerting aspect of this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can be condensed to a single word uncertainty. Each day we see a grim tally, national statistics that rise and fall, local numbers and lots of conflicting information. When will it subside? When can we reboot our economy both na…
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
Editor's Note: Vincent "Vince" Vala, who worked 30 years as a photographer and writer for the Culpeper Star-Exponent and Culpeper News, died Tuesday of pneumonia at his home in Culpeper. Vala, who was also a local musician, was 57.
- BY MARSHALL CONNER
- Updated
- 0
The greatest foe in our collective battle with this COVID-19 virus is uncertainty.
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
Today we find ourselves in a moment of profound change. A worrisome moment in time where the world that we knew just two weeks ago is now in the rearview mirror.
- BY MARSHALL CONNER
- Updated
- 0
Every crisis needs a columnist, right?
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
There is something about the smell of it that brings me hope and comfort. It helps to fire the imagination with scenes of somewhere south of here, a place where I can feel the humidity, hear the music and smell centuries worth of sins and parties drifting in the air.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Real-time social media posts from local businesses and organizations across Northern Virginia, powered by Friends2Follow. To add your business to the stream, email cfields@insidenova.com or click on the green button below.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
A gentleman with a microphone announced our entrance into a large meeting room converted into a magical dance hall. He unrolled a scroll and proclaimed, “I present Princess Christiana and her Knight Sir Marshall.” A little hand squeezed my thumb—just like she did the first day I first met h…
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
If ever there was a time for a little laughter it would be now.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
Amid a Sunday homily focused on the appreciation of the totality of a decorated Christmas tree my parish priest asked the congregation to consider the often-overlooked feature that keeps our beautiful trees standing.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
There are good crowds and there are bad crowds in our lives. I stood amid a great one. On a breezy cold morning I stood alongside veteran bikers, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Gold Star mothers, church volunteers and families.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
Where do you find your thankfulness in life?
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
Deep inside my brawny Scottish-American chest beats a soulful Latin heart—this was what I was feeling in the afterglow of the Washington Nationals’ World Series victory last Wednesday night.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
So, it is election time once again. Wait, doesn’t it seem like we’ve all been in a perpetual election for the last three years? Remember when elections happened and then people went back to being normal?
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
Recent news and debates about climate change spawned a few thoughts. I’m an independent thinker politically—a strange creature in today’s polarized world. Let me add that people have tried to pin me to a political philosophy and failed miserably. I like it better that way.
Get Culpeper Times Weekly in your inbox!
Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.
Error! There was an error processing your request.
More from this section
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
This summer’s protests in Hong Kong have me wondering if we have lost the desire and courage to stand up for democracy in the world.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
As summer officially draws to a close the back-to-school photos begin to flow across social media. Digital images create a perfect storm of cuteness, lunch boxes, backpacks and bright new shoes.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
A traffic cone, an orange plastic totem of man’s desire for a more controlled world stands in mute witness to the parking follies of mankind. It bears the scars of wheels and weather.
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
There was a time when a television journalist was viewed by many in the country as a hero.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
Fatherhood is like making jambalaya—it needs quality ingredients, patience, love, timing and a high-quality roux. Hot sauce should be used just enough to enhance the final product.
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
The English poet John Maxwell Edmonds is credited with the authorship of this famous inscription that nobly defines the lost dreams of any fallen warrior:
- By Marshall Conner
- Updated
- 0
Have you ever had a week so annoyingly bad that you would like to check out of humanity for a few hours and drink with animals?
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
It was somewhere south of Virginia when the memories kicked in and nautical twilight crept in like a night light at the end of a dark hallway. It was the time of morning when the road is populated by sleepy truckers, travelers and blue-collar types heading in to work.
- Marshall Conner
- 0
Life’s greatest victories often arise from our greatest tests.
- By Marshall Conner
- 0
There is something about the motions of fly fishing that calm and heal the mind. I have experienced this power in various degrees in my life---it can erase the stress of a thousand workdays, the loss of a family member or the stress of deadlines.
Articles
- Gay Pride celebration coming to Culpeper
- GALLERY: Culpeper Pride held at Mountain Run Winery
- Event honors over 300 forgotten veterans from honored 321 men from Culpeper, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock counties
- GALLERY: Culpeper Cavaliers fall to Front Royal Cardinals in first home game
- Big commemoration coming for pivotal, but long overlooked, local Civil War battle: 160 years ago next month, horsemen fought epic cavalry clash at Brandy Station
- Culpeper's first hemp nursery debuts
- Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services introduces new Mobile Outreach Program
- Culpeper County Volunteer Fire closes ride after social media video shows malfunction
- Cruisin For Heroes to hold second annual chili competition, cancer fundraiser
- Ratcliffe, Ford hold event for voters in Culpeper