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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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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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