Road Diary: Culpeper Edition

Assorted notes from the road

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Culpeper, Virginia, a lovely, classic small town with a low-intensity but deeply urban downtown. My photo essay was kind of high level, mostly talking about the land use, the grand buildings, and the sense of energy that these small towns had in their heyday:

Culpeper, at first glance, is a railroad town; its rail line…