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.
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)
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.