The Rockbridge area celebrated Juneteenth this year with an art show sponsored by Project Horizon that concluded with a celebration on Juneteenth, June 19, when awards were given out.
The history of the mill at Kerrs Creek and the story of Mason Dunlap, businessman and pre-Civil-War community patriarch, are told in the one of the latest “Rockbridge Epilogues,” written by the woman who with her husband owned Dunlap’s house for 45 years more than a century later.
A female equestrian aims her pistol and fires at a balloon during the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association’s Appalachian Mountain Champtionships last week at the Virginia Horse Center. The event was the second held at the horse center in as many weeks and also the second since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the equine facility in mid-March. (Stephanie Mikels Blevins photo)
A lovely sunset behind House Mountain was observed Sunday night just west of Lexington. The colors were made more vivid by dust from a plume that traveled 5,000 miles from the Sahara Desert in Africa. A combination of meteorological factors led to dust being kicked up by storms and traveling a vast distance. (Claudia Schwab photo)
High Bridge Presbyterian Church is pleased to announce that barring a spike in COVID-19 cases in our area, we will resume public worship on July 5. We will follow all guidelines we set in place. Our online worship format will continue even after COVID- 19 departs.
