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Brownsburg Museum exhibit panel titled “Afrika — From Brownsburg to Liberia,” with William Halliburton’s 1866 letter, a map of the 4,788-mile journey, and the words “These people matter to me.”

The Brownsburg Museum

By Joe Stinnett

The Brownsburg Museum is a small museum in tiny Brownsburg, Virginia, a historic community near Raphine in the Shenandoah Valley. I was invited for a private tour and it is world-class. I was blown away by the quality of the displays and…

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About 30 members of the BG Hilltrippers hiking group posing together under the timber-frame Shelter No. 1 at Holliday Lake State Park, one holding a cake.

Hiker Lunch

By Joe Stinnett

I hosted a cookout lunch for my hiking group, the BG Hilltrippers, at Holliday Lake State Park in Appomattox County, to thank them for all their interest and support for my Liberia project over the years I’ve been working on it and talking…

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