Eileen Abbott
Television News Reporter and Anchor at Freelance
National Press Club Journalist member April 2025 TV, radio, digital & print reporter. @BostonCollege
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
richmondmagazine.com | Eileen Abbott
A retired pilot, Richmonder Tim Heath has flown more planes than he can count. One of his most memorable flights, however, was as a passenger on a trip to the Czech Republic. There, he connected with someone who died before he was born but nonetheless made a significant impact on his life: his uncle, 2nd Lt. Theo Heath, a World War II pilot who was killed in action.
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3 weeks ago |
richmondmagazine.com | Eileen Abbott
When Suzanne Vinson was a young teen attending summer camp, a youth minister told the group that God needs people to care for one another. “I can do that,” she recalls thinking. Today, Vinson is an ordained minister who still believes in the importance of uplifting others. “We’re each better for making another’s day brighter, for … creating conditions that help our communities as a whole,” she says.
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1 month ago |
dailyprogress.com | Eileen Abbott
It was the “breathtaking natural beauty” she saw while hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains and the banks of the Rivanna River that convinced Mona El Khafif to move to Virginia and join the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, where she teaches urban design and environmental planning. Along with students in her Urban Strategies course, El Khafif is working hard to preserve the natural landscape that attracted her to Charlottesville.
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2 months ago |
richmondmagazine.com | Eileen Abbott
Copeland Casati has a home in the Fan and serves on the board of the Historic West Grace Street Association. She works in communications and content creation and posts photos on Instagram of elegantly set tables and entrees garnished with flowers. She also has another, very different life. “When you see me in the city, you would never know I’m picking weeds for breakfast and spending lunch breaks with a chainsaw [cutting firewood],” Casati says.
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2 months ago |
dailyprogress.com | Eileen Abbott
On a farm just north of Charlottesville, the life cycle is on full display — and not just that of plant and wildlife, but humans too. At Panorama Farms in Earlysville, hot air balloonists land in empty fields after a day gliding over the Blue Ridge Mountains, cross country athletes race through 850 acres of rolling hills and, now, the dead are laid to rest in a 20-acre corner on the far northwest side where the property’s owners have established a natural burial ground.
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I was fascinated when I saw photos of the Heath family's travels to the Czech Republic where they and the people of Slavičín honored someone they never met, but who made a profound impact on their lives. #pilot #WW2 #veterans My #MemorialDay story here: https://t.co/wOA4X5Sy3g
https://t.co/mqk8QpDM9c 🌳 #Charlottesville, #Virginia, area could become the world's #1st "Biophilic Region" thanks to @UVA professors and students. How #nature brings #joy and #health to those living in the global @BiophilicCities network. My story in today's Daily Progress.
I found it fascinating that the president of a company in Virginia also has a second life living off the grid, so I asked her to share her adventurous story for this morning's @RichmondMag. #Offgrid #offthegridlife https://t.co/y6rmkTOy7S