2023 Was Our Year of Jubilee
​ Our 75th Jubilee was marked by one year of activities from October 2022 through October 2023, culminating in a Gala Dinner-Dance on October 21, 2023, featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, a presentation about scholarship recipients, exhibits, live music by The Original Moonlighters, catering by Chef Jazz, and so much more.
With tremendous support from the community, we prepared a souvenir booklet for the banquet. In appreciation to our business patrons, we are providing advertising in our marketing media through 2025, and asking all to please patronize them. ​
STILL HAPPENING
Event: Traveling Exhibit, "Being A Citizen"
Dates: Through November, 2024
Locations: Select venues throughout Culpeper, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock (updates will be posted here).
Sponsor: This exhibit is generously supported by the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative through their "Power of Change" program grant.
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THE MAIN EVENT
The Main Event: Carver Forever: A 75th Diamond Jubilee Dinner and Dance
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023
Location: Germanna Joseph R. Daniel Technology Center, 18121 Technology Dr., Culpeper, VA
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Event: Farm Tour and Fair
Dates: September 16-17, 2023
Location: The Carver Center
9432 James Madison Hwy, Rapidan, VA 22733
Theme: Telling Our Story - Till the Soil
Partner: George Washington Carver Agricultural Research Center
Event: An Ol' Fashion Picnic
Date: July 29, 2023
Location: Amissville Fire and Rescue Station
14711 Lee Highway, Amissville, VA 20106
Theme: Telling Our Story - Riding the Bus
Event: Taste and Talk at Sweet Vines Farm Winery
Dates: Sunday, April 16, 2023, 2 - 5pm
Theme: Telling Our Story - Teach The Children (Souvenir Program available to download above)
Event: Jubilee Luncheon
Theme: Telling Our Story: Let The Music Play
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2 p.m.
Location: Madison Fire House, 1223 N. Main Street in Madison
Description: 1959 Carver graduates Edward "Skip" Gordon and John "Dykes" Hunter are featured - along with their professionally played instruments - in this exploration of the influence that Carver's music teachers had on students.
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Event: Holiday Lights Memorial
Date & Time: December 11th, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Location: The Carver Center Front Lawn
Description: The lights on the trees outside of The Carver Center were lit in recognition and memorial to those who donated to the Carver 4-County Museum beginning on Giving Tuesday, November 29th. Guests shared with those in need by bringing a nonperishable food item for donation to the Culpeper Food Closet.
Scenes from our Jubilee events coming soon
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Jubilee research is generously funded in part by the M. Meade Palmer and Culpeper Foundation grants of the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, and Culpeper County government.
THANK YOU TO OUR JUBILEE SPONSORS
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DIAMOND $5,000
Action Group, Inc.
Grelen Nursery, Inc
Jefferson Home Builders/
Culpeper Wood Preservers
CITRINE: $1,000
Chemung Contracting Corp/
Cedar Mountain Stone
Encompass
Germanna Community College
Sean D. Gregg
HTD Entertainment
Sweet Vines Farm Winery
UVA Health
Wade Schick’s Chrysler
EMERALD: $500
John Davies III and Margaret Moon
K & P Properties
Knakal’s Bakery
Mason Insurance
Otis and Monedia Lewis
Rappahannock Electric
Cooperative
Supreme Capital Holdings
LLC
Tibbs Funeral Home and
Cremation
Tiger Fuel
OPAL: $150 - $499
18U Blackwell Unity Softball
Antioch Baptist Church,
Culpeper
Antioch Baptist Church,
Madison
Rebecca Apperson Family
Marian Jackson Anglin Family
A Wayne Breeden, D.D.S.
Charles D Brown Janitorial
Services
Cherry Street Building Supply
Corp
Class of 1967
Charles B Coleman Jr Family
Cherry Street Building Supply
Corp
Clore’s Repair Shop & Towing
Janet “Topsy” Andrews Coleman Family
Cooper’s Cookin and Catering
Culpeper Human Services
Emanuel Baptist Church,
Orange
Free Union Baptist Church
Frankie & Alan Gilmore
Samuel Glasker Family
Green Roost
William Hale/State Farm Ins
Head Start
S Page Higginbotham III &
Ansley J.Higginbotham
Kid Central
Law Office of Pia J Miller, PLLC
Little Zion Baptist Church
Madison County Historical
Society
Mt Zion Baptist Church, Locust
Grove
N Style Fashion Gallery
Nazareth Baptist Church,
Culpeper
Orange County Democratic
Party
OTI/Orange Tire Inc
Paint and Paper
Piedmont Power
Plow & Hearth
Betty Jackson Robinson
Pinkie’s (Strother) Art
Rosson and Troilo
Round Hill Inn
H B Sedwick Jr Building
Supply, Inc
OUR SPONSORS (cont)
OPAL (continued)
The Cameleer Inc
The McDaniel Companies
Bettie L Turner Family
Turner’s Quality Pool & Spa
Ware & Glascoe Families
Howard & Marlene Ware
Theresa I Glascoe Washburn
Family
Wayne’s Heating/Cooling/
Energy/Plumbing
Whisper Meadows Press
TURQUOISE: $75
All World Logistics, LLC
Anna & Mary Dinkins
Appleton Campbell
Audrey Acty Avery Family
George Eddie Banks Family
Evelyn P Brown
Gene & Susie Winkey Brown
Charles Cooper
Darnell’s Garden Patch
Dogwood Village
Innovative Healthcare and
Laser Therapy
Charles Edward Johnson
Clore-English Funeral Home
Thomas O Madden Family
Madison Democrats
Montpelier Descendants
Committee
Nazareth Baptist Church,
Orange
Oasis Travel
Kelley A Pearson for
Culpeper School Board
Pepperberries
Preddy Funeral Home
Rising Zion Baptist Church
Charles Roberts Family
Sanford & Sons Construction,
LLC
Sean Robinson
Sorted by Shani
William Shanks Family
Ted Sherwin, D.D.S., P.C.
Tom’s Automotive
Union Baptist Church,
Gordonsville
Virginia Tractor
Wayland Blue Ridge Baptist
Association
Robert L. Wilson
Yoder’s Country Market
AMETHYST: $37.50
James Booker
Class of 1960
James T Ferris Family
Gibson Rental
Morris “Dolly” and Mary
Johnson Glasker Family
Alfreda Jackson Hart
Lillie & Leroy Jones Sr
Virginia Gayle Lewis
William H. Lewis Sr Family
Out Of Sight Events
Roberts Brothers Family
Dolores Owens, Grace
Arrington & Peggy
Arrington Howard
T & D Painting
TOPAZ: $30
Altman Tire, Inc
Ebony Kargbo
Frye Painting, LLC
NAJ’s Special Event Rentals
New Jerusalem Ministry Intl
O’Reilly Auto Parts
W. A. Sherman Co
TSG Enterprises
Uptown Hair Fashions
Jr Williams, Barber
SPECIAL DONORS $50 - $300
In memory of Carolyn K
Banks by Patricia and
Charles Sawyer
Barbara F Caesar
In honor of Carver
advocate Charles B Coleman, Jr, Culpeper County, by the
Grimes grandchildren
“Living the Legacy”
In honor of Janet “Topsy”
Andrews Coleman,
Class of 1950
John & Wendy Dickinson
Robert W Holland Sr
William Russell & Phyllis
Inskeep
N Style Fashion Gallery
O’Reilly Auto Parts, Orange, VA
Dan Riley
Supreme Capital Holdings LLC
Tiger Fuel
Walmart