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Karen Newton

Virginia
As seen in: Style Weekly, BiggerPockets, NewsBreak, WTVR-TV (Richmond, VA), Personnel Today, Virginia Business, Ask By Geeks, News On The Neck
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Fun on the Fourth

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By Karen Newton
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Editor’s note: Due to extreme predicted temperatures over the weekend, please double-check times and whether your desired event is still taking place on Saturday; many events were in flux as of press time. We will update as possible. Stay cool out there, Warriors. Independence Day hasn’t always been about vodka-infused watermelon, sketchy potato salads and terrified dogs.
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The Banjo's Story

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By Karen Newton
| Style Weekly Verified
The earliest documentation of the banjo is from the Caribbean in the late 1600s. For the first 150 years of the instrument’s existence, it was associated with people of the African diaspora in the Americas and used as part of religious ceremony and ritual. “Although people like to say the banjo is African, it’s actually different than any known African instrument,” says author and musician Kristina Gaddy. “It has many characteristics found on instruments from different African cultures.
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The Old South

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By Karen Newton
| Style Weekly Verified
The range of relationships between white and enslaved people was a story Melvin Patrick Ely needed to tell. While researching an earlier book, “Israel on the Appomattox,” about Black people in Prince Edward County who already had their freedom before the Civil War, Ely worked his way through thousands of county records held in the Library of Virginia. He recalls being struck by the great variety of interactions between white people and the many Black people who remained enslaved until 1865.
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