FARMVILLE, Va., June 22 -- Longwood University issued the following news release:
With graduation in the rearview, residence halls emptied and students home for the summer, the walkways of Longwood's campus are devoid of the typical bustle and buzz of the academic year. Or at least they were.
This week, rising high school seniors from around Virginia are making Longwood and America's oldest two-college town of Farmville their home for one week as the university hosts Virginia Girls State for the 52nd consecutive year. But while the week-long gathering of rising high-school seniors has become tradition on Longwood's 187-year-old campus, this year's version of the statewide program is, for the first time, sharing the town of Farmville with ...