The “Light the Skyline” drive will include money for restoration and for future upkeep.
Culture
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Posted inMartinsville area
50 years ago, these Henry County students made history
During integration, Black schools typically closed. In Henry County, integration sent white students to G.W. Carver High School. The 1976 class, the first to attend all five years at the integrated school, recently gathered for a reunion and shared the stories of how that experience shaped them.
Posted inCulture
Franklin County band Lost & Found inducted into Bluegrass Hall of Fame at awards ceremony
Gary Reid, Mason Via and Key Chang were other winners with Southwest Virginia ties at IBMAs in Chattanooga.
Posted inMartinsville area
Daniel Donato, Andy Frasco atop early bill announcement from Rooster Walk 17
More headliners, including top-of-the-bill acts, are yet to come, organizers say. The festival will be held May 27-30 near Martinsville.
Posted inDanville area
Native Roots Farm plans to grow agritourism with planned opening in Pittsylvania County
Toniekia and Tim Poole are cultivating a plot of historically Occaneechi land in Dry Fork.
Posted inCardinal News 250
During the revolution, soldiers from Southwest Virginia marched to South Carolina to win a major battle. Now Barter Theatre is staging their story.
The Overmountain Men won an improbable victory that changed the course of the war in the South. The play “Kings Mountain” runs through Oct. 31.
Posted inSouthwest Area
‘Every book I write will be about Appalachia’: Why Barbara Kingsolver feels called to tell stories about the region
Her new novel “Partita,” which debuts Tuesday, involves the protagonist’s upbringing on an East Tennessee cattle farm.
Posted inCulture
State approves 11 new historical markers, including one in Lynchburg
That marker will recognize Lt. Gen. George G. Loving Jr., who grew up in the city and went on to a long military career that spanned 1942 to 1979.
Posted inDanville area
‘The River’s Radiance’ mural unveiled in downtown Danville
Public art is becoming more of a city economic growth priority.
Posted inCulture
‘Dolly Parton Day’ boosts beloved singer’s Imagination Library
More than 31,000 children under age 5 across Southwest and Southside Virginia receive free books each month through the program.
