Earle-Sears and Spanberger ditch a Virginia tradition. Will they even debate at all?

Earle-Sears and Spanberger ditch a Virginia tradition. Will they even debate at all?

Virginia, like the seasons, once had four great political traditions. All now seem to be discarded, trampled over by changing times. The great springtime rite of passage once was the Shad Planking, a fish roast (shad cooked on wooden planks over an open fire) in Sussex County that was more remembered for the political speeches than the cuisine.  The novelist and legal scholar Garret Epps once wrote that the Shad Planking was “a yearly gathering …