For much of the last year, I've spent my free time playing Minecraft. I bought the game for my kids but found myself completely lost in the world. I've spent countless hours playing the game, learning how to survive and build structures and explore a virtual world. But now, I've grown bored with it. Which means I have free time left over. That's meant I've been going to the Jefferson Madison Regional Library 's reference section in the central branch to go back in time to update cvillepedia. It's a good trade of time, I'd say. I'm still spending as much in front of a computer but the virtual world I'm helping to recreate tells the story of Charlottesville and Albemarle County through historic articles from the Daily Progress . My main mission this year is to help understand the events of 1960 better. That's the year of the first major annexation of county lands by the city. There was also an election and a referendum on p
Striking down the mundane and dastardly while retaining a certain obscure turn of phrase, denoting something elusive yet concrete.