Brandy Station News

PRESERVING PLASTER: Brandy Station Foundation president Joe McKinney shows conservationist Chris Mills a piece of plaster from one of the walls at the Graffiti House in Brandy Station.

ADVANCE FOR MONDAY JAN. 30 AND THEREAFTER - This Saturday Jan. 21, 2012 photo shows Archeological Conservator Christopher Mills injects a synthetic resin into a wall at the Graffiti House in Brandy Station Graffiti House in Culpeper, Va.

There will be no roundabout on State Route 3 in Stevensburg. Brent Sprinkel, assistant district administrator for the Virginia Department of Transportation's Culpeper District, confirmed Thursday that the controversial traffic-calmingA measure is off the tableA for the widening project.

As a general rule, hospitals and dirt don't get along. In the Culpeper Civil War hospital that has become known as the Graffiti House, however, dirt has literally saved history.

Nobody wants a big pile of processed poop in his backyard-or even in a remote section of woods more than a half mile away.