Editor’s note: While we don’t normally run poetry in the paper, we’re making an exception after receiving the poem you’re about to read. It’s from a rising junior at Rockbridge County High School with her take on the pandemic and the racial unrest now sweeping the country. She says she takes David Simms’ writing class who, she says, has inspired and encouraged her. Our hats off to another great area teacher.
Dicamba is the common name of an herbicide that has been used for decades to help control broad-leafed weeds in a wide range of farm crops. It is marketed under many different trade names.
It’s a difficult balancing act to celebrate one’s heritage without glorifying the more unsavory aspects of it. Lexington is a historic city that has long promoted its ties to the Civil War and the Confederacy’s two most famous generals. Lexington’s two historic colleges, Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, have strong ties to the Civil War and individuals closely associated with the Confederacy.
In one of the pictures that ran with last week’s story on Buena Vista Baptist Church providing meals for essential workers during the pandemic, incorrect information was included in the caption.
