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 Laura Emery, Field Editor | Nov 3, 2020 | Cover Story
November/December 2020 Veteran Finds New Ways to Serve His Community In the midst of a trying time, a couple from Emporia, Va., looks forward to spreading holiday kindness Serving comes naturally to Edward Bryant. After fighting in the Vietnam War, seemingly a million...
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 | Cover Story
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by Laura Emery, Field Editor | Jul 1, 2020 | Cover Story
July 2020 A paw and an outstretched hand form winning artwork Mariner, daughter of Peter and Melissa Gleich, won Best in Show in the 18th annual Cooperative Living Youth Art Contest with her artistic depiction of a little girl at the zoo bonding with a perfectly...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jun 1, 2020 | Cover Story
June 2020 Youth played a key, unsung role, memorial historian explains They weren’t old enough to go into battle, much less get a driver’s license or register to vote. But 75 years after World War II ended, the young members of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts across the...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Apr 29, 2020 | Cover Story
May 2020 Every Barn Could Use a Quilt Eye-catching painted patterns brighten outbuildings and benefit bookworms. There is Double Aster, Star of the Show and Carpenter’s Wheel. Mary’s Flower, Autumn Cross and Appalachian Bull. Anvil, Laced Star and Crowned Mule. And, of...
by Web Admin | Feb 29, 2020 | Cover Story
March-April 2020 This Home is Full of Dogs – and Love For some families, having a couple of teenagers in the house would be enough. Now add 17 dogs. By Margaret Buranen, Contributing Writer That’s what it can look like at times in the Warrenton, Va., house of Northern...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Jan 31, 2020 | Cover Story
February 2020 On the Outside, Looking In Farmville school was a civil rights wellspring Rita Odom was screaming. But she didn’t want anyone to hear. At the house of a stranger 150 miles from home, tears welled in the 12-year-old’s eyes as she cried under her breath:...
by Laura Emery, Field Editor | Dec 19, 2019 | Cover Story
February 2020 AIMING HIGH A Northern Neck resident and Power Line Worker Training School graduate, Genevie Boarman is en route to joining the select ranks of female lineworkers. “I can definitely keep up with the boys,” the 24-year-old says with a twinkle in her eye,...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Nov 1, 2019 | Bolivia, Cover Story
November-December 2019 Bernie Hastings gave a soccer ball to a Bolivian youth. But he was gifting much more than that. For when Hastings presented the plaything during a project in which 15 electric cooperative lineworkers powered rural Bolivia, he extended a lifeline...
