Catch up on September 14–19, then settle into Work & Place: four complete features on the railways, workplaces, Black institutions and new opportunities that shaped Southside. Essential news is free; the complete series is included in this purchased issue.
Washington delivered his Atlanta Exposition address on September 18, 1895. Reading the speech alongside the story of his Franklin County birthplace makes a familiar name harder to reduce to a slogan.
A September exhibition created with Roanoke’s Southeast community sits alongside an exploration of gilded icons, offering two ways to think about what people choose to honor.
A September anniversary leads back to Booker T. Washington’s Virginia birthplace
Washington delivered his Atlanta Exposition address on September 18, 1895. Reading the speech alongside the story of his Franklin County birthplace makes a familiar name harder to reduce to a slogan.
At the Taubman, neighborhood art offers a reason to slow down
A September exhibition created with Roanoke’s Southeast community sits alongside an exploration of gilded icons, offering two ways to think about what people choose to honor.
At Avoca, an Altavista house opens onto a larger history
The Queen Anne house dates to 1901, but Avoca’s story reaches beyond architecture—to earlier residents, enslavement, preservation and the work of recovering individual lives.
At Smith Mountain Lake, releasing a striped bass is not always the kinder choice
DWR’s warm-season guidance asks anglers to think beyond the moment a fish swims away. The lake’s striped-bass fishery depends on stocking and careful management.
City notices for September 19 paired Community Care Day with Party on Pierce. The downtown market supplies a longer-running example of the same idea: a public place where practical needs and community life meet.
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Before Gretna Had Its Name, It Had a Junction
A storehouse ramp and two surviving depots explain how rail access joined local lives to a much larger Southside economy.
