by Randy Rieland | Sep 24, 2026 | People, Sidebar, Top Story
John Jackson festival returns Sept. 26 It’s the music of back porches. So it makes perfect sense that a musician, who bills himself as the “Appalachian Soul Man,” should be a headliner at the John Jackson Piedmont Blues Festival on Saturday, Sept. 26 at Castleton...
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...
