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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Jason Tsai | Opinions Staff


The Setonian
Opinion

Festivities: That Farmville sandwich life though.

That Farmville sandwich life though. What is this “Farmville sandwich life?” The honed adage of being what we eat is evident in our culture. Our culture also defines what we eat. It’s a tug-of-war of meaning. What we do as a college town defines local favorites, and in turn what local businesses ...

The Setonian
Opinion

Feastivities: Bites of Local Food Culture in Spoon-sized Blurbs

Every college town has its cafes and Farmville is no exception. Downtown Farmville not only hosts the J Fergeson Gallery, Longwood Center for Visual Arts and antique shops, but also the curiously named and well-lit Uptown Coffee Cafe. Quickly growing in repute as a performance hub for local musical ...

The Setonian
Features

Guitar Strings and Off-the-Cuff from the Heart of Virginia

Folk musicians and students with acoustic guitars play to patrons in sweaters holding mugs of hot java at Uptown Coffee every Thursday night.  Longwood’s creative writing community gather at The Bakery’s Speakeasy “anything goes” spoken word to share their workshop pieces over craft Belgian ...

The Setonian
Opinion

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

We are approaching the end of October: the leaves are turning and so is the atmosphere. Sweaters and boots are coming out of bottom drawers and being pulled over our tan lines. For a small liberal arts college, this signals the return of Thanksgiving break, a week to turn in final projects, fill out ...

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