Ben Jackson has studied sites from Abingdon to Manassas to find the legacies of enslaved workers.
Carolyn Wilson
A native of Washington County, Carolyn lives on her family farm in Glade Spring, where she enjoys gardening and photography. She graduated in 1982 with a Mass Communications degree from Emory & Henry College, later working for the Bristol Herald Courier as a classified advertising representative and lifestyles reporter. She later returned to her alma mater to work in the Appalachian Center for Civic Life on campus for nearly 20 years. Her love of Southwest Virginia is portrayed in her writings of the people who make the Appalachian region their homes.
Posted inCulture
Aircraft to drop rabies vaccines for raccoons across Southwest Virginia
The air drops are part of a larger effort to create a barrier against the westward spread of raccoon rabies.
Posted inSports
Smyth County teen on U.S. team that wins World Youth Fly Fishing Championship
Blake Hall, 14, won first place last year in a national competition, which put him in the running to compete on the U.S. team that fished in Bosnia.
Posted inCulture
Historic Washington County cemetery experiments with restoring native habitat
Emory & Henry College has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canaan Valley Institute to convert 2 acres into a pollinator meadow.