I get a casting error when I use your lambda.

Here is the entire Razor:

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@{ 
    int pageSize; // How many items per page
    int page; // The page we are viewing

    /* Set up parameters */

    if (!int.TryParse(Parameter.PageSize,out pageSize))
    {
        pageSize = 6;
    }

    if (!int.TryParse(Request.QueryString["page"],out page))
    {
        page = 1;
    }

    /* This is your basic query to select the nodes you want */

    var articles = Model.Parent.Descendants("DateFolder").Children.Where("NodeTypeAlias == \"NewsArticle\"");


    int totalNodes = articles.Count();
    int totalPages = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)totalNodes /(double)pageSize);

    /* Bounds checking */

    if (page > totalPages)
    {
        page = totalPages;  
    }
    else if (page <1)
    {
        page = 1;
    }
}

<h2>Found @totalNodes results.Showing Page @page of @totalPages</h2>

<ul>
    @foreach (var item in articles.Skip((page - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize))
    {
        <li><a href="@item.Url">@item.Name</a>(@item.DisplayDate.ToShortDateString())</li>
    }
</ul>

<ul class="paging">
    @for (int p = 1; p < totalPages + 1; p++)
    {
        string selected = (p == page) ? "selected" : String.Empty;
        <li class="@selected"><a href="?page=@p" title="Go to page @p of results">@p</a></li> 
    }
</ul>

can you try this sir steve :

 var articles = Model.Parent.Descendants("NewsArticle");

I have tried this, and it does list all the articles, but I need only the articles contained (children) in the folder of the docType "DateFolder".

Otherwise, I get some unneeded articles that are outside the DateFolders.

Would you be willing to do something like:

var articles = uQuery.GetNodeByUrl($"/Alumni/{DateFolder}/")
                .GetChildNodes()
                .Where(x => x.NodeTypeAlias == "NewsArticle")

This will use uQuery and just get all the children at that URL of the NodeType.

I guess I am okay with this for now, but could you look at my syntax for 2 things in the for loop that lists the NewsArticles:

1. I am trying to get the "NewsCategory" Name from the current article, but it's not working. The NewsCategory is a Ancestor of the current node, so I thought I could reference it that way in the loop. Nope..

2. I am also trying to get an image from the media library with the property of "featuredImage". The if statement works, but I only get the "Hello World" text output in the image's place.

@foreach (var item in articles.OrderBy("CreateDate descending").Skip((page - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize)) {

var newsCategory = @Model.Ancestor("NewsCategory");

        <li class="listing">
            <p class="tag">@newsCategory.Name - @item.CreateDate.ToShortDateString())</p>
                @if( @item.HasValue("featuredImage")){
                    var featuredImageThumb = @Model.Media("featuredImage");
                <img src="/imageGen.ashx?image=@item.featuredImageThumb.umbracoFile&width=154" />
                }
                <h3><a href="@item.Url">@item.headline</a></h3></li>
                <p class="teaser">@item.teaser</p>
    }

Going back, It does look like I'll have to be able to select the articles from the docType of "DateFolder" and I just can't seem to get that to work at all.

I don't understand why this won't work to get the children of the children of another node using something like this:

var articles = Model.AncestorOrSelf("NewsHome").Children.Where("NodeTypeAlias == \"NewsCategory\"").Children.Where("NodeTypeAlias == \"DateFolder\"");

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