by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog
This week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, two love letters were discovered inside the old News Virginian building on Main Street hill. There are no dates or exact names mentioned in the love letters. Before the building was used as the offices for the News...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog
By Shawn Decker In the 1980s a deadly untreatable illness called HIV was making the headlines across the nation. Much was not known about the disease at the time. It carried with it the stigma and fear that comes naturally when people and their community are faced...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog
Among the ranks of common soldiers are those who, perhaps for only a fleeting moment, display uncommon valor above and beyond the call of duty and are singled out for the nation’s highest aware for combat heroism, the Medal of Honor. Deep in the archives of the...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Dec 18, 2013 | Blog
Was he insane “mad?” Was he angry “mad?” Was he reckless “mad?” The Revolutionary War hero had a fiery temperament and was a strict disciplinarian who demanded obedience and loyalty from his men. But he was also loyal to his troops and was constantly...
by Waynesboro Heritage Foundation | Nov 20, 2013 | Blog
It was a Friday when the news started to trickle in through television and radio. At first it seemed like some sort of sick joke and then it was followed by horror. When that evening’s News Virginian found its way to door steps all around Waynesboro the large...
