"The new web series 'Solid 8' might take place in New York, but its foundation is solidly rooted in Fredericksburg.

Co-creator Magan Carrigan is a graduate of Colonial Forge High School and the University of Mary Washington, and was abetted by her artistic contacts in the region for the series.

It’s also proof that those kids—you know the ones—who hang out at Hyperion and wax poetic are up to big things."