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A man flips through a magazine at the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, April 6, 2019. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Federal money makes up a meager portion of public library income in the Magnolia State, but literacy advocates say its erosion puts vulnerable communities in peril.
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The Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Marina District of San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. (J.K. NAKATA/USGS)
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the quake triggered between $6 billion and $10 billion in property damage.
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Funeral director Donita Greene views a decedent ahead of a visitation at Greene Funeral Home in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. This image has been partially blurred to protect the identity of the deceased. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
For centuries, funeral homes have been passed down from father to son. That trend has met its demise.
In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, portrait, youth services librarian Letitia Van Campen poses with a stuffed puppet at George Mason Regional Library in Annandale, Va. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
As the Institute of Museum and Library Services receives another stay of execution, a Virginia librarian illustrates the vital need for federal library funding.
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Jefreena Packianathan, vice president of the Indian American Catholic Association, walks across an aisle of the Upper Church at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. Hundreds of Catholics of South Asian descent convened for IACA’s 21st Annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Good Health, Vailankanni. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
The Indian American Catholic Association hosted the 21st Annual Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Good Health, Vailankanni. Hundreds traveled through a late summer downpour to congregate at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
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Award-winning wines are pictured at Potomac Point Vineyard and Winery in Stafford, Va., Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Great grapes don’t just come from Napa Valley. Virginia’s internationally acclaimed wines are driving sales and boosting tourism.
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Bridges to Independence celebrates the inaugural Arlington Bunny Hop 5K Charity Fun Run/Walk at Clarendon United Methodist Church in Arlington, Va., Saturday, April 14, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
From start to finish, organizers agreed the inaugural Arlington Bunny Hop 5K Charity Fun Run/Walk was a success.
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Darin Atwater's Soulful Symphony performs "MLK 50: Requiem for a King" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Friday, April 6, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony took the stage at the National Museum of African Amerian History and Culture to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Decorative items for sale are pictured at the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., Friday, March 23, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
The first Sugarloaf Crafts Festival was held 42 years ago, in the spring of 1976 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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John Klapperich, a beekeeper who with his wife Elsa runs The Bee Store in Lake Ridge, Va., runs a finger along honeycomb at his Woodbridge, Va., home, Friday, March 2, 2018. (LIINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
“There’s a lot of things that bees do that are just kind of miraculous,” said John Klapperich, co-owner of The Bee Store in Lake Ridge, Virginia.
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Raymond de Haan, assistant chief flight instructor at Aviation Adventures in Leesburg, Va., taxis a 2005 Cessna Skyhawk 172SP G1000 at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO), Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. De Haan is an Amsterdam native whose call sign is "Dutchman." (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Raymond de Haan, assistant chief flight instructor at Aviation Adventures in Leesburg, Virginia, is an Amsterdam native whose call sign is "Dutchman."
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Paranormal investigator Lori Miars, co-founder of Northern Virginia Spirits and Paranormal Investigators, reaches out to the dead at Broad Run Cemetery in Ashburn, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. According to a plaque beside the graveyard, 35 family members and friends of John LeFevre, whose family once owned and farmed the land, were buried there between 1750 and 1911. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
“Is that you, Mary?” Lori Miars probed, stooping in front of the crooked, weathered tombstone.
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David Pagan Castaño, head winemaker at Potomac Point Vineyard and Winery in Stafford, Va., examines grapevines that need pruning, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
As he walked up and down the rows of barren February grapevines, pruning several wiry ones along the way, David Pagan Castaño seemed in his element.
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured from the West Lawn, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Ever since she was a child, the U.S. Capitol has been Lindsey Leake’s favorite building in the world.
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The holiday decor at the inaugural Rosslyn Carols! event in Arlington, Va. — from the star atop the 28-foot-tall Christmas tree to the bows on lamp posts — boasted the business district’s signature purple on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Carolers’ voices echoed throughout the plaza, beckoning those in search of a little holiday spirit to the heart of the new mixed-use development.
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Television still reigns supreme among news media — can digital one day come out on top?
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Members of the Honor Flight Network’s Columbus, Ohio, branch pose for a photo at the World War II Memorial in Washington on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
The Honor Flight Network exists “to bring World War II veterans to Washington to visit their memorial, essentially, before it was too late for them,” said tour guide Alan Lewis, visiting with the national organization’s Columbus, Ohio, hub.
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A 1598 woodcut depicts an exorcism. (CC-BY 2.0)
Exorcists are in high demand but that may not be the devil’s doing.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump gather on the National Mall in Washington for the Mother of All Rallies, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Rally-goers waved American flags, dancing and singing along to “Yankee Doodle,” “God Bless America” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.”
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Sandbags on the sidewalk in Georgetown, S.C., are pictured Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in the wake of Tropical Storm Irma. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Irma brought flooding to South Carolina’s third-oldest city for the third time in as many years.
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