The Lancaster Virginia Historical Society (LVHS) will co-host a Black history presentation, “Old Saint John’s Baptist Church and Cemetery: Revisiting a Community’s Legacy of Faith” February 7 at the Lancaster Community Library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock.
Doors will open at 12:30 p.m. and the program will follow at 1 p.m. Admission is free.
The program will feature members of the Old Saint John’s Baptist Church Cemetery Project Committee, a citizen committee co-chaired by pastor Tyron Williams of Mount Olive Baptist Church and history advocate Francine Aytes Hunter. Williams, Hunter and other church and community leaders will speak about the history, significance and families of….
