Pitch Perfect: Celebrating Black Business Success in the City of Staunton
If you ventured into Staunton's Gypsy Hill Park on a recent September weekend, chances are you stepped into the middle of a powerful current of history. Once a sprawling public fairground that was open to the City's Black residents only a single day out of the year, the park bandstand is now home to the annual African-American Heritage & Multicultural Festival--a vibrant, deeply-rooted gathering that is the oldest and largest celebration of its kind in the Shenandoah Valley. For years, the...
