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Untold Stories: Growing Up in Ashland/Hanover — Black and White Experiences will be presented from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Hanover Arts and Activities Center at 500 S. Center St. in Ashland. Ashland/Hanover residents will tell their personal stories. Topics will include education and life as students in different schools. This event is sponsored jointly by The Center, the Hanover County Black Heritage Society, the Ashland Museum, and Ashland Main Street. Moderator Anthony Keitt will engage a panel of Hanoverians, including Beryl Carter, Hilda Kelly, John Gordon, Eloise Piccolo, Earl Hunter and Woody Tucker, to share their stories, their oral histories with the audience —
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These Hanover Story Tellers Woody Tucker, left, John Gordon, Eloise Piccolo, Hilde Kelly and Earl Hunter will present their stories of “Growing up Ashland/Hanover — Black and White Experiences” at a program at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Hanover Arts & Activities Center at 500 S. Center St. The program is being sponsored by the Hanover Arts & Activities Center, the Hanover Black Heritage Society, the Ashland Museum and Ashland Main Street Association. Berle Carter also will participate. The program is free and open to the public.
to collect, preserve, and share along with Tom Wulf ’s infor- Hanoverians. The sponsoring groups plan other Untold Stories in different mative and inspiring video clips edited from his interviews of to continue to work together see EXPERIENCES, pg. 19
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FOHS reschedules meeting for Feb. 28 Contributed Report news@mechlocal.com Due to the budget hearing being conducted by the Hanover County School Board, a Friends of Hanover Schools meeting has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Ashland Library. The meeting originally was to be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the library. Bob Hundley, chairman, Chickahominy District, and Hank Lowry, and Ashland
IF YOU GO . . . 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 Ashland Library
District of the School Board will be joined by David Myers, assistant superintendent of Business and Operations for Hanover County Public Schools, in addressing the Friends of Hanover Schools. Randy Sherrod serves as president of FOHS.
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