Fir Grove Elementary students kept a more than 30-year tradition alive Friday as fifth graders and their teachers gathered at the Roseburg VA National Cemetery to plant flags in front
FEW people from Powys managed to anger both sides during the English Civil War. Yet Vavasor Powell had not been like other men and had gone against both in a life which had seen him both persecuted and persecutor during a time of much unrest in the 17th century. Born in Knucklas in 1617, he worked for a while as an hostler at Bishop s Castle before being sent by his uncle, the vicar of Clun, to Oxford University. Vavasor, however, dropped out to become a schoolteacher at Clun. He went to London at the outbreak of civil war in 1642, returning to Wales after the surrender of Raglan Castle gave Parliament control of Wales in 1646.