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Chicken hats, chicken dances, feathered fedoras, cakewalks, accordion music and a colorful array of bubbly brews flowing from the taps.

100 Years Ago

Riders have long clamored for better service to Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Frederick, Maryland, but there are many barriers to expansion. Some form of this plan, though, may actually come to fruition.

Members of the historical society are seeking even more Chapin Building community stories and memories as they prepare a celebration for its 100-year anniversary in

Tucked away in northwestern Idaho, Post Falls is a city that provides many seasonal activities for all walks of life.

Not so for Virginia Jacobs McLaughlin. She was ready to start climbing scaffolding. McLaughlin had a long history of painting, but it wasn’t until later in life that she found her calling as a commercial muralist, transforming barren walls into depictions of historical scenes in private homes and commercial properties. Over the course of nearly 30 years she distinguished herself as a prolific painter, completing around 130 works in the mid-Atlantic region. McLaughlin, who lived in Frederic...