by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Sep 30, 2021 | Building Community
October 2021 New Ways to Boost Rural Areas Electric cooperatives as engines of rural economic development There is hope for rural America’s future. But it’ll take strong working relationships, a dose of imagination and a lot of elbow grease to achieve it. That’s the...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Apr 30, 2021 | Cover Story
May 2021 History Hidden in the Walls Edwin Washington Project depicts history of rural Black education What we know about Edwin Washington is that he wanted to learn. We don’t know much else about him. But we know he longed to learn, and that is enough. In June 1867,...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Richard G. Johnstone Jr. concluded his 36-year career with the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives on March 31. His employment was marked by the longest tenure as amember magazine editor (1985-2005) and general manager/CEO...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Feb 19, 2021 | Cover 2
February 2021 The Legacy of Rosenwald Schools FacebookPinterestTwitterEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendly Maxine Nowlin’s brother, Maurice Darden, is in this photograph of a classroom in the original Rosenwald school in Courtland, Va.PHOTOS BY LAURA EMERY A story of...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Feb 18, 2021 | Cover Story
February 2021 The School on the Hill Achieving a vision for the future while respecting the past After more than 60 years, Delores Nash-Hicks was back in fourth grade, and she could not have been more delighted. Her old classroom in the Campbell County Training School...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jan 4, 2021 | Civic Pride
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by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jan 4, 2021 | Cover Story
January 2021 The Onley Community Health Center is a low-slung brick building with a green awning and roof, tucked just off U.S. 13 on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The center is one of five operated by Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc. for roughly 31,000 patients...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Oct 5, 2020 | Cover Story
October 2020 Digging in the Dirt The peanut business in Virginia is all it’s cracked up to be, and more Chris Parker is checking to see if there is money underground. He leans over a small plant and brushes aside its lush, feather-like leaves. Reaching under it,...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Sep 1, 2020 | Cover Story
September 2020 Stable of Hopes and Dreams At a Maryland therapeutic riding center, breakthroughs come one gait at a time What really lifts Kimberly Hopkins’ spirits is when she thinks about a young woman who spoke her first words astride a well-mannered quarter...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Aug 3, 2020 | Co-op People
August 2020 Relive the Bolivia mission by visiting...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Aug 3, 2020 | Cover Story
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by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jul 1, 2020 | Commonwealth Kitchen
Get ‘Fired Up’ This Summer Though the pandemic pushed the 2020 Lineworker’s Rodeo Gaff-n-Grill to 2021, we’re still eager to share tips from our co-op grillers. July 2020 Click here to submit your recipe for Cooperative Kitchen SEND US YOUR RECIPES! Please email your...
