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...
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...
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...
2023-02-FF-FlintHillVFD-13.jpgThe Flint Hill Volunteer Fire & Rescue department, Rappahannock County’s Company 4, on Fodderstack Road. A Virginia State Police investigator found evidence of possible embezzlement, credit card theft, tax fraud and forgery at the...
The School House is up for sale; Copper Fox Antiques narrowly avoids foreclosure auction Update: The foreclosure auction of the Copper Fox Antiques was called off late last week after owner Alex Sharp and Atlantic Union Bank ended a year-long impasse. They agreed to...
Stories of the search for home in Rappahannock By Sara Schonhardt — For Foothills Forum Home means something different to everyone. Yet what we discovered through responses to a Community Housing Questionnaire we circulated last year is that those who choose to make...
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...
2023-06-Battle-Brandy-Station--38-web-4.jpg The Fight for Fleetwood is known for the cavalry clashing with their sabers drawn. This smaller battle happened a few hours after the larger Charging of the Confederate Guns at St. James Church The sun beat down on a crowd...
In normal years, Virginia’s budget plan is supposed to be pretty much done by April except for any late changes recommended by the governor. But for the second year in row, the politically split General Assembly is heading into spring under a cloud of uncertainty over...
The Day at a Glance SperryFest 2023 Main Street Map Front (1) → 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Festival set-up, parking opens → 10 a.m. SperryFest begins → 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. RAAC Music: Grass Fed at Music Stage → 12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Juggling Magic by the Plaksin Men → 1 p.m....
Community newspapers remain the main source of independent local news. But for how long? On Tuesday, April 25, Foothills Forum, the Rappahannock News and Rapp at Home are hosting a free showing of the award-winning "Storm Lake," a documentary that tells the story of...
As a young man, Hugh Hill decided to follow his dream, and it swept him into three parallel careers: emergency medicine, the law, and the theater. Far from being overwhelmed by this vocational trinity, Hill, a native Virginian and for eight years a part-time resident...
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