Category Archives: Features

Feature stories from our staff, including profiles of people and places of interest to our community.

College Students Back Home

By Maddie Ball COVID-19 has shut down schools all across the United States, causing students to return home from colleges. Like Collegiate,…

What Are We Eating In Quarantine?

By Cate Hill In Richmond, like many other cities, restaurants have been forced to close or significantly cut back service due to…

Quarantine Is The Best Time To Reread Your Favorite Books

By Emma Blackwood There is no doubt that isolation has everyone picking up various new hobbies, from sewing and cooking to painting…

Quarantine Puppies

By Ashley D’Ambrosia The well-known phrase, “A dog is a man’s best friend,” is undoubtedly something all dog owners can agree upon….

Richmond’s Tank Runs Empty

By Gabby Dunn Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Richmond, like many other cities and towns around the country, has become quiet and…

Offshore Fishing in the Graveyard of The Atlantic

By Carter Stokes Over Spring Break in March, my father Jimmy Stokes and younger brother Andrew Stokes, a sophomore at Virginia Episcopal…

Cooking, Crafts, And More: New Hobbies In Quarantine

By Ashley D’Ambrosia The movie Tangled tells the story of a young girl named Rapunzel, who has spent her whole life trapped…

Class of 2020: What We’ll Miss

By Virginia Angle The COVID-19 pandemic has consumed the news and media, with the number of affected individuals skyrocketing since the first…

Saying Goodbye To The 2020 Spring Athletic Season

By Gabby Dunn Back in the pre-quarantine days, I always drove out to Collegiate’s Robins Campus for practices and games with the…

Aster Kidane: More Than A Kindergarten Teacher

By Emma Blackwood Lower School teacher and Collegiate parent Aster Kidane is a Kindergarten assistant, but her job entails much more than…