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From 1891 until 1969, you could board a passenger train in Covington and ride it to The Homestead in Bath County, along a C&O Railway spur known as the Hot Springs branch. Heading north, it followed the Jackson River, one of a handful of wild trout streams left in Virginia.
Brown and rainbow trout, some of them a foot to 18 inches long, still swim that stretch of water below Gathright Dam. But the locomotives and tracks are long gone. In their place are crushed cinders, modern bathrooms, parking areas and picnic tables.
Those comprise one of Western Virginiaâs most recent rails-to-trails projects, the 14.4-mile (and counting) Jackson River Scenic Trail. Itâs a bit more than an hourâs drive from Roanoke. Donna and I made our first visit Sunday â and it wonât be our last.
Updated: 18/04/2021
Four houses displaying personal items such as childhood photos and toys honor Americans who have lost their lives to gun violence, in an exhibition that recently opened at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
The Gun Violence Memorial Project aims to celebrate and honor the individual stories, while also being able to physically represent the enormity of this epidemic, says Jha D Williams, project manager at the MASS Design Group, a non-profit architecture firm that collaborated with artist Hank Willis Thomas on the memorial.
Artist Matty Owens, 22, creates justice-themed artwork at the Dorchester Art Project in Fields Corner. (Courtesy Sam Correa)
On a corner in Egleston Square which I pass almost every day once stood an artistic statement: a mural that doubled as an epitaph and a vision board. The wall was adorned with subaltern messages that resonate to an audience today: I have a dream. Stop the violence. I ll do what I can to survive. One local news station described it as a social blackboard and a cry for happiness, the messages having been painted by local Puerto Rican street youth who called themselves the X-Men.