Fruits of the labor of Friends of the Chessie Trail are readily visible at the Buena Vista end of the Chessie Nature Trail. Hundreds of tons of crushed stone and clay fill are freshly in place on a new section of trail that extends nearly half-a-mile from the old trailhead to a newly constructed parking lot close to the Russell Robey bridge.
We will hear soon if Washington and Lee University is to change its name, followed by courts deciding the fate of equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville and Richmond.
