How a few hobbies and hidden talents helped a local crafter create a successful business. Accidental Artist...
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Three Generations of Know-How The Talbert family’s experience in the lumber business dates back to the 1930s,...
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For the past couple of years, music lovers in the Danville area and in Person, Caswell, and...
December 5, 2023
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First, it was a booth at a flea market, then came Southern Treasures, followed by Wine a...
December 3, 2023
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Psychologists have said that one of the most common dreams people have is about flying. There is...
Making History Personal – The R.P. Brooks General Store at the Person County Museum of History

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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a general store as “a retail store located usually in a small or...
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Let me start off by saying I am a coffee lover. A coffee snob is probably a...
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It all started with Marconi, who invented the radio and the wireless telegraph in the 1890s. By...
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Anyone passing through South Boston over the past year will likely have noticed several new banners suspended...
October 4, 2023
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Many people know Gerald Roxbury as the vice president of the South Boston-Halifax Museum of Fine Arts...
October 2, 2023
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“Tom is just an amazing person and hard to sum up briefly! He loves people, pretty much...
September 30, 2023
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Something Vintage and Something New From the greening of the causeway just over the Watkins Memorial Bridge...
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The Family Person County, 1909: two young cousins, W.C. Watkins and W.C. Bullock arrived to embark on...
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The kitchen didn’t have a door. In fact, it had been removed some time ago, as part...
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The bridge stretches out over Mayo Lake- Reaching for the other bank. Yearning for the other side....
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Once upon a time, there was a family who had a cat named Cinnamon. Cinnamon was a...
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The Danville area has for years (I am not allowed to say how many) enjoyed the on-air...
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Golf: my grandfather played, my father played, my brother and I both play. I love the game...
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Just a few miles outside South Boston sits a circa 1844 mansion that now serves as a...