The "Windows to our Heritage: Art that Honors Our Journey" show is back for its second year on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the State Theater, 305 S Main St., Culpeper. “This isn't just a show; it's a community gathering where everyone can enjoy...
Preserving his family’s history — and his town’s soul Charles Jameson's life is a journey through history itself—from the farmlands of Culpeper to the battlefields of Vietnam and back to the very soil his family tended for generations. At 78, he is a pathfinder,...
At 13, she desegregated Warren County High School In the heart of rural Virginia, an incredible story of strength and transformation unfolds through Betty Kilby Fisher Baldwin. It twists and turns through her eight decades, but pivotal to who she is today was an act...
Rappahannock County’s calming beauty and rolling hills hold stories from the Civil War era waiting to be told. Howard Lambert, a Culpeper native and the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to...
Retired teacher Jane Pollard, now 78, grew up in the Slate Mills area of Rappahannock County in a close-knit Black community that thrived on unity and self-reliance despite the harsh realities of segregation and the arrival of integration in the 1950s and ‘60s. She...