by Ayana Summerlinrosa | Oct 14, 2025 | Pathfinders, People, Sidebar
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,...
by Emily Oaks | Aug 3, 2025 | Features, People, Sidebar, Top Story
A political debate, utterly free of animosity, took place July 20 at Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison County where two men in 18th-century breeches and tricornered hats reenacted an event that occurred on the same spot in January 1789. Friends James Madison and James...
by Emily Oaks | Jun 27, 2025 | Local servcies, People, Sidebar, Top Story
New beginning includes working with recently formed African American Association Scores of Rappahannock residents gathered in one of the oldest buildings in the Town of Washington last Sunday to celebrate a hopeful new beginning for an organization that has been the...
by Bob Hurley | May 4, 2025 | Features, People, Top Story
‘We never identified ourselves as hippies’ Many of the women who moved here during what some Rappahannock locals called the “hippie invasion” in the 1970s — a movement of peace, love and free-spirited lifestyles — stayed on. Over the decade, communes like “Spyder...
by Ayana Summerlinrosa | 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...
