by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 27, 2023 | Art, Crime and Courts, Politics
If not for Ben Raines, the world wouldn’t know one of the most dramatic stories of the last 163 years. In 2018 upriver from Mobile, Ala., this former journalist discovered the wreck of Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach our nation. Moment of...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 15, 2023 | Art, Education, Health, Politics
2022-09-Reisler-Play-3-web.jpgBoomie Pedersen performed the one- person play with brightly painted masks by Mary Bartlett helping set the scene. Julie Portman’s play tells story of a dream that took her to India 50 years ago “Inside each one of us, there is a place...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 11, 2023 | Art, Business, Politics
Remembering era of rotary phones, change that came next Remember the time before cable, satellite and wireless telecommunications, back when AT&T had a monopoly on phone service in the United States? Award-winning filmmaker Cliff Hackel, a long-time Rappahannock...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 8, 2023 | Agriculture, Crime and Courts, Politics
Rapp son Ben Raines dives into river, discovers ship shards Ben Raines, author of “The Last Slave Ship,” is coming to Little Washington Theatre on Sept. 16 to discuss the story of the criminal transport of slaves to the United States in 1860, and his own discovery of...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Jun 17, 2023 | Art, Health
Nol PutnamNol Putnam at his Huntly forge in 2021. Renowned Rappahannock blacksmith and artist Nol Putnam passed away Sunday night. A county resident since 2001, Putnam was a long-time fixture on the Fall Art Tour, sharing White Oak Forge, his story, and his talent...
