Category: Harrisonburg culture

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Harrisonburg’s first Stone Soup event highlights the importance of community

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Tiller Strings: sales, rentals, repair, sheet music, accessories.

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Changing it up has helped put this food truck on the map

Two years ago, John and Leigh Anne McMurray chased their passion for the culinary arts and opened Ott Street Eats, a food truck with an ever-changing menu. 

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This regional music scene is really underground

When you think of a stage, you probably picture a raised platform, flashing strobe lights and a black backdrop. But last month, Dogwood Tales — a local, four-piece Harrisonburg band — was the latest group to perform in a far more unconventional setting: a cave.

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How a downtown restaurant went beyond two pieces of bread and some cheese

Grilled cheese has long earned a place amid the pantheon of comfort foods—a warm, melty bite of nostalgia. But for Kathleen Mania-Casey, it became something more.

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Founding footsteps: Harrisonburg history will come to the fore as part of VA250

What does it take for a small cluster of springs in a rugged valley to become the heart of a thriving city? For Thomas Harrison, the answer was a vision, generosity and a deep connection to the land that would one day bear his name. 

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From the basement up: Places and names might change, but showhouse culture remains in Harrisonburg

The sharp whine of an electric guitar slices through the crackling feedback of an amp. Then, it hits—a wall of sound: thundering drums, pulsing basslines, and raw vocals. Scuffed Doc Martens pound the floor. Bodies jostle and sway, gripping the low rafters for stability. In the cramped basement, people in the crowd press shoulder to shoulder, chest to back. Strangers, united only by the music, move as one.

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Schools seek to embrace dos and don’ts of AI; Elementary school days to get 15 minutes longer starting Feb. 3

After nine months of work by a task force, the Harrisonburg City Public School Board is poised to adopt guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms.

Harrisonburg Anabaptists Help to Create a New Study Bible

By Mary Ann Zehr, contributor Starting just before Christmas, Harrisonburg-based publisher MennoMedia began shipping thousands of copies of a new study Bible called the Anabaptist Community Bible. “We printed 10,000 in our first print run, and we’ve just gone back to do another printing,” said Amy Gingerich, the publisher and executive director for MennoMedia, affiliated …

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