The hunter and his buddy were keeping an eye out for deer in the Nobusineess Creek sliver of Giles County when the first man saw something that startled him a little bit. That in itself was surprising. Typically he wasn’t the kind of man put off by the unexpected.
The Rev. David A. MacQueen identified two categories of the wealthy. The disappointing ones were the disengaged “idle rich” as he labeled them with the longstanding pejorative.
Anne Judkins Campbell and Debbie Sherman-Lee have been honored for their outstanding community service to a variety of organizations by the Alleghany Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The presentation was made by Karen Spicer Finch, Regent of Allegh…
Rena Worthen is one of a legion who believes the lives of all people who ever lived must be remembered, that If they took one breath in this world it should be recorded.
On April 9, a group of engineering students from Virginia Tech participating with The Big Event, the school’s day of service to the community, gave of their time to help the Glencoe Mansion, Museum & Gallery. While at Glencoe the students helped with the monumental task of cleaning the e…
Born in Saltville, Texas Gladden of western Roanoke County was considered a folk singer of the highest stature.
Dark clouds forming; distant thunder sounding; a chilly breeze — a somber backdrop influenced the choice of topics for this week’s submission. Thus a sad story is at hand.
“Mosaic” is a cliché often applied to the craft of storytelling, the correspondence between the two, roughly speaking, said to be elements of a tale fitting together to form a fluid narrative in similar manner to the tiles of a mosaic joining harmoniously to fashion a pleasing picture.
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History, which opened its doors to the public in 1989, has closed its Pepper Street location to give way to a new chapter. April 7 was the last day the museum was open to the general public at the Christiansburg site that has housed the museum for 33 years.
Before bidding farewell to Samuel Aldrich Crozer, one of Roanoke’s pioneering industrial magnates, some final keystrokes remain to be applied to that chapter of his biography and the accompanying history of his enterprises in this part of the world.
Much like an individual who experienced an alarming failure of rappelling gear, we were left dangling not long ago in efforts to write a final chapter on the long defunct Shank Foundry that once did business in the shadow of Roanoke’s St. Andrew’s Catholic Church.
The 2022 Dialogue on Race Winter Summit will be Saturday, March 26, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Christiansburg Middle School, located at 1205 Buffalo Drive.
An unexpected discovery of previous family ties to Roanoke recently startled a current resident, prompting her to want to know more.
A Roanoke woman shares memories of growing up as the caretaker's daughter at the Mill Mountain Zoo in the 1950s.
True it is that beginning a report with a disclaimer serves as a dissatisfying introduction. Yet the nature of this column is that all the information we seek is not immediately available if it exists at all.
With only 19 years left on the lease for the real estate on which the Gainsboro Branch Library rests, it’s not too soon for the city of Roanoke to start thinking about renewal discussions.
In the wake of the Civil War that ended two years previously, Virginia was still under military rule in 1867. Elections that year were scheduled for Oct. 22. Voter rolls that survived provide more than a few interesting insights.
“When she cut loose with that whistle, nothing like it had ever been heard in Roanoke,” octogenarian Davy Crockett recalled in 1955.
By pieces and threads the centurylong story of the Julius Oliver family’s farm on the western slope of Read Mountain continues to come together.
What follows is a story about an American dream that was not blocked, demolished or abandoned and the resulting generational prosperity that has endured against the odds.
Word has come from the kitchen,
The Virginia Association of Museums will host online voting for the 2021 Top 10 Endangered Artifacts competition from Jan. 18-27, and the New River Valley is once again represented on the list.
First known as Shaver's Crossing after a nearby farm, the vehicle crossing via two underpasses below the railroad shops later became known as Shaffers Crossing.
City directories and deed cards of the early 20th century help a sleuthing answer man assist with a query.
Water of love deep in the ground
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