Hampton Roads Times: The Magazine of Hampton Roads People, Business, and History

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The region of Hampton Roads may be defined most broadly as being all of South Hampton Roads
and the Virginia Peninsula, the tip of the Middle Peninsula, and the corner of northeastern
North Carolina. Specifically, it includes the Southeastern Virginia cities of Chesapeake,
Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and
Williamsburg, counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, Southampton,
and York, and town of Smithfield, in addition to North Carolina's Currituck County.

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Hampton Roads

Click here to see nearly 100 current maps of the Hampton Roads region as well as
Civil War-era maps of the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack (USS Monitor
vs. CSS Virginia), which occurred in the waters known as Hampton Roads (from
which the region takes its name).

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About Hampton Roads Times^®

he Hampton Roads Times^® is an online magazine for the Hampton Roads region

— namely, the Southeastern Virginia cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, Southampton, and York, and town of Smithfield, as well as Currituck County, North Carolina —

which comprises all of South Hampton Roads and the Virginia Peninsula, the tip of the Middle Peninsula, and the corner of northeastern North Carolina.

The magazine's purpose is to promote the region's ideas, projects, products, and services not only through news and information about the region, its businesses, and its history but also through insightful blogs on virtually any topic that one wants to discuss. The information and opinion blogs are open to all people, for the goal of the Hampton Roads Times is to serve as Southeastern Virginia's (and Northeastern North Carolina's) forum for debate and discussion of all issues.

The philosophy of the Hampton Roads Times is that the ideas, organizations, and businesses of Hampton Roads are the lifeblood of the communities of Hampton Roads.

The Hampton Roads Times takes a holistic approach to news and information, as it focusses not so much on facts and figures as on people, ideas, and history. And its approach to business is that it endeavors to shine a light on not only the people who own the businesses or work in those businesses, but also those who buy the products of those businesses, those who benefit from those businesses, and those who create an environment that allows those businesses to thrive.

The Hampton Roads Times strives to continually grow, adding more valuable content from an ever-widening circle of sources, media, perspectives, and opinions. This magazine always welcomes creative ideas and thoughtful articles from every citizen of the region.

We are owned by Writers SuperCenter LLC, a Norfolk-based company that has, for more than a decade, provided services and software to journalists and business writers — as well as professional (and wannabe) novelists and screenwriters — through the leading websites of their kind, including www.WriterSuperCenter.com and www.WritersPage.com. The SuperCenter also partners with ShortBios.com, producer of biographies and profiles for business owners, employees, and others.

The founder of Hampton Roads Times is Irwin Berent, an historian of Hampton Roads, co-creator of StoryCraft Software, and author of

• Drug Legalization: For and Against (with Rod L. Evans, Ph.D., co-author; Introduction by Hugh Downs; Foreword by Linus Pauling)

• The Quotable Conservative (with Dr. Evans; Introduction by William F. Buckley, Jr.)

• The Right Words: The 350 Best Things to Say to Get Along With People (Warner Books; with Dr. Evans)

• Getting Your Words Worth (Warner Books; with Dr. Evans)

• Weird Words (Berkley Books; with Dr. Evans)

• Jewish Genealogy: A Sourcebook (with David Zubatsky, Ph.D.)

• Norfolk, Virginia: A Jewish History of the 20th Century

• The Crew of the U.S.S. Monitor (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

and other books on society, history, communications skills, and lexicology.

The Staff and Editor and Publisher,
Hampton Roads Times

   Norfolk, Virginia
   Phone: 757/855-1272; 800/589-1022
   Email: contact form

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