Jun 28, 2023
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, the Wilkinson sisters could hear their father talking in the basement - strangers coming and going under the cover of darkness. It was as President of Roanoke’s NAACP that the Reverend R.R. Wilkinson worked on a secret, biracial committee of businessmen and clergy,...
Jun 21, 2023
It's Pride Month! And Roanoke's queer community has a lot to be proud of. Historians, elders and the new generation are coming together to tell stories of back street bars, campfire chats and welcoming front porches - where Roanoke's LGBTQ women have found refuge for decades. In this episode of Hometown Stories: a look...
Jun 14, 2023
A mountain midwife is said to have lost more than 20 of her own children, before becoming a midwife to hundreds of local families. That's the life, legacy and lore connected to a woman people called Aunt Orlean Puckett. In this episode of Hometown Stories, we take a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway to learn about...
Jun 7, 2023
Joseph McGill Jr. has spent the last 13 years attempting to sleep in every extant slave building still standing. The South Carolinian's travels have even brought him to southwest Virginia. This week he released a book which he wrote with writer Herb Frazier. In this episode of Hometown Stories, we hear from McGill and...