Ayana Summerlinrosa

Articles written by Ayana Summerlinrosa

Howard Lambert’s mission: to honor Black Civil War soldiers

Feb 27, 2025 | Features, Pathfinders, People, Politics

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...

Rappahannock native Jane Pollard reflects on life in the ’50s, ’60s

Nov 17, 2024 | Education, Features, Pathfinders, People

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...

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Ayana Summerlinrosa

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