By Ashley Adkins
Lewisburg is full of enterprising individuals who have launched the small businesses that are an integral part of making it the “Coolest Small Town in America,” but many of the area’s earliest entrepreneurs have been somewhat lost to history. That unseen history is exactly what Janice Cooley, a recent recipient of the Human and Civil Rights Award, hoped to uncover when she curated the exhibit, “Invisible Roots and Legends: A Photographic View of African American History in the Greenbrier Valley, West Virginia.”
Read more in the Friday, February 20, edition of the West Virginia Daily News.