The Montgomery Museum of Art & History is hosting 2 exhibits in March: Portraits of the Blues and Shining a Light on Christiansburg Institute.

In a unanimous vote, the Virginia Military Institue Board of Visitors approved the next man to lead the military college.

Researchers in Bordeaux are carefully studying a dozen bottles of French wine that returned to Earth after a stay aboard the International Space Station. They announced their preliminary impressions Wednesday — mainly, that weightlessness didn’t ruin the wine and it seemed to energize the vines. AdA special pressurized device delicately uncorked the bottles at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux. Ad“The wine of Bordeaux is a wine that gets its singularity from its history but also from its innovations," he told The AP. “For me, the difference between the space and earth wine ... it wasn’t easy to define,” said Franck Dubourdieu, a Bordeaux-based agronomist and oenologist, an expert in the study of wine and wine-making.

LEXINGTON, Va. – Rather than remove its past, VMI plans to focus on its future. Bindford Peay III, announced the decision to neither remove Confederate statues nor rename any buildings as part of a seven-page letter. Peay said that VMI, which has been around for nearly 200 years, will emphasize the Institute’s second century. We do not currently intend to remove any VMI statues or rename any VMI buildings. Education VMI Corps of Cadets Promote Increased Commissioning VMI Symbology AlumniPeay said that these pillars will be integrated into VMI’s Strategic Vision 2039.