Culture

Members of the Halliburton family were enslaved in Rockbridge County, then were freed and immigrated to Liberia. An exhibit at the Brownsburg Museum traces their journeys, struggles and triumphs.

Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia has awarded two rounds of funding to projects that seek to bring long-overdue attention to overlooked people and places.

The project added three new trail segments and eliminated five stream crossings.

Cardinal News now offers sudoku, crossword puzzles and word searches.

Strauss and his family donated millions of dollars to health, education and economic development efforts around Roanoke.

The current plan is to place the statue at Rocky Mount’s Veterans Memorial Park. But the decision came after a close vote of the commission that oversees the park.

But the marker won’t be at the actual site where leaders of the effort believe the 1891 lynching occurred, nor will soil be collected from the site as part of the remembrance project, because the property owner won’t allow it.

It’s unclear whether the arrangement is temporary or permanent.

He once made a guitar for Eric Clapton, and the book about its creation made Henderson famous.

The court still must rule on questions of how much it has cost to care for dozens of seized animals, and who should foot the bill.