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New and Old #268

Aged ham, smoked lunch meat, the big TV screens of yore, and local soda-brand trivia

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Addison Del Mastro
May 29, 2026
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The Art of Aging Well, The Piedmont Virginian, April 10, 2018, Pam Kamphuis

This is an article I wish I had written, and which I roughly had the idea to write, but it was already done, and the business owner it’s about has retired, so his store and product are not around anymore.

It’s about Tom Calhoun, who owned Calhoun’s Ham House in Culpeper, Virginia …

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