Local NAACP hosts Juneteenth celebration

Local NAACP hosts Juneteenth celebration

06152024_Juneteenth_011 copy.jpgA young attendee is mesmerized by a bubble machine. The NAACP Culpeper Branch, which includes Rappahannock County, hosted a lively Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, filling Yowell Meadow Park with music and laughter. Juneteenth,...
Not ‘just a moment’

Not ‘just a moment’

Nan Butler Roberts was born and bred in Rappahannock by a family whose roots in the county run deep. Her home church is First Baptist Church of Washington, and a relative founded Promise Land Baptist in the same town in 1900. Her parents owned and operated the...