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Volume 65, Number 19 • May 7, 2020
Goochland businesses could soon open doors For those forced to stay closed, Northam’s announcement offers hope that end is in sight
Contributed photos
Above, artist Joan Cunningham Williams puts the finishing touches on a mural she created for a post office in Poteau, Oklahoma in the 1940s. Right, Williams’ children, Nick, Michael, Kitty and Brigid Williams visiting the mural last January.
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
A life lived in color
After nearly a month and a half of mandated closures, area businesses could finally get a reprieve by the end of next week. During a press conference on Monday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced that Virginia could move onto phase one of the state’s reopening by May 14 if the state continues to see marked progress against the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. And although the guidelines for businesses such as hair salons and restaurants are not expected to be announced until later this week, the news offers a glimmer of hope for a local business com-
Manakin resident says seeing her late mother’s artwork was “like stepping back in time”
Kitty Williams has always treasured one descriptor above all others: mother. After all, it was with her mother in Of all the ways people who knew her mind that she, along with her three sibcould have described Joan Cunningham lings, travelled last January to Poteau, Williams — free-spirit, artist, adventurer, see Artist > page 11 intellectual — Manakin Sabot resident By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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