Black history book
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
This is the cover of a new book titled “Black History of Highland County” that is currently available for purchase.
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A new book chronicling local Black history has been published by local authors Katie Burwinkel, John Glaze and Myra Phillips and is currently available for purchase.
“Black History of Highland County” is a 130-page book that includes information about the county’s first Black resident; early Black settlements including Hansborough, Black Rock and Gist; the country’s only Black automobile manufacturer who was from Greenfield; and a three-day attack on a Black church camp in present day Danville.
Pioneer Day returning to the Scott House
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
Scenes like this one of a Grassy Run Historical Arts Committee member displaying quill writing will be part of Pioneer Day on Aug. 14 at the Scott House in Hillsboro.
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Pioneer Day, an event first held two years ago by the Highland County Historical Society but canceled a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is returning to Hillsboro next month.
This year’s event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 at the Scott House on West Main Street in Hillsboro. For the time being at least, the hope is to make Pioneer Day an annual event, according to John Kellis, one of the event organizers.
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Mother: ’God is good’
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgzette.com
Lynchburg resident Molly Chapel takes her first steps in May after being hospitalized for several months with COVID-19.
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Molly Chapol, a 24-year-old Lynchburg resident, is pictured in the hospital in May with her children, 6-year-old Addie and 2-year-old Sebastian.
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At first doctors thought it was pneumonia and sent her home. Three days later, 24-year-old Lynchburg resident Molly Chapol was in the hospital for what turned out to be a more than 160-day stay with COVID-19. Multiple times her family was told she was going to die. But she came home on June 19, and her family gives all the glory to God.