Rex Springston, Author at Virginia Mercury

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Rex Springston was a reporter for the Richmond News Leader and The Times-Dispatch for 36 years. He lives in Richmond and contributes reporting on history, wildlife and other topics for the Mercury.

MEDIA

Step aside murder hornet: How a puss caterpillar sting in Virginia...

Rex Springston - October 27, 2020

VIRGINIA WILDLIFE

Venomous caterpillar ‘no one has heard of’ sends New Kent woman...

Rex Springston - September 11, 2020

LOOK AWAY

‘A symbolic cacophony’: As monuments come down, the unraveling of the...

Rex Springston - July 28, 2020

COMMENTARY

Washing the gray from Monument Avenue

Rex Springston - July 2, 2020

LOOK AWAY

‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond...

Rex Springston - December 6, 2019

LOOK AWAY

Two Hampton trees witnessed start of Virginia slavery, beginnings of freedom

Rex Springston - August 23, 2019

LOOK AWAY

Much of what we’ve been told about Virginia’s 1619 first Africans...

Rex Springston - August 11, 2019

COMMENTARY

Fighting myths, misconceptions and misunderstandings about race, slavery and the Civil...

Rex Springston - May 23, 2019

ENERGY + ENVIRONMENT

Spare the snakes: Know these six serpents

Rex Springston - May 2, 2019

COMMENTARY

How I unlearned what I was taught about the Civil War...

Rex Springston - February 8, 2019