CHARLES CITY — When the Pilgrims left England aboard the Mayflower on Sept. 6, 1620, they were already late for the first official Thanksgiving observed by the English in the New World. On Dec. 4, ...

Have you ever been to the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City? I went to the annual event for the first time. It takes place on the first Sunday in November. The step ...

President Bush this morning toured the Central Virginia Foodbank in Richmond, where he honored a volunteer worker and briefly helped place canned food into a cart for distribution. He then gave the ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will be releasing an adult bald eagle that has been a patient at the Center since late March. The eagle will be released at 1 p.m. Wednesday by Center President Ed ...

This week, two new TV programs will present the story of an early-American Thanksgiving, but both National Geographic Channel’s four-hour “Saints & Strangers” (9 p.m. today and Monday) and PBS’s ...

Along the James River in Virginia, history isn’t confined to monuments or textbooks. It’s still standing in the fields, the floors, and the family that has carried it forward for more than a century ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Get ready for the annual Virginia Thanksgiving Festival! On Sunday, Nov. 3rd, thousands of people are expected to take a step back in history to commemorate America’s First ...