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What's Your Story? Virginia's Alleghany Highlands

An oral history and community development project in Virginia's Alleghany Highlands. What's Your Story?

is a storytelling project based on a fundamental truth: when people feel listened to--that their stories matter not just to them, but to the whole community--big things can happen. We record, transcribe, and publish stories from every part of Virginia's Alleghany HIghlands. We celebrate our past and our people, and together create a clear picture of how to go forward. is building a video collectio

n of our story interviews, available to community groups and schools seeking to learn about our heritage. In addition, we're publishing a series of books, featuring stories and photographs of our storytellers. Our first volume--Remembering the Historic Masonic Theatre- is available for purchase throughout the Alleghany Highlands as well as on the Historic Masonic Theatre website (www.historicmasonictheatre.com)

05/13/2025

Thursday, May 15!

This week on May 15, plan to attend the Clifton Forge Community Gathering in the Historic Masonic Theatre Auditorium--6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. A variety of speakers will be presenting information on upcoming events in our community....all programs and projects you will want to know more about! See you there!

05/04/2025

Please mark your calendars for Thursday, May 15 from 6:30 to 8:00 for our next Community Gathering! We will feature a variety of speakers with news to share! The Community Gathering will take place in the auditorium of The Historic Masonic Theatre!

10/21/2024

Please join us tonight for stories of Green Pastures in the Tom Dean Underground!

Mark your calendars for Monday, October 21! Please join us in the Masonic Theatre Underground, and bring your stories of Green Pastures!

10/16/2024

Plan to come to the Historic Masonic Theatre Underground to hear stories of Green Pastures on Monday, October 21. Stop by JMT for dinner!!!

10/09/2024

Please join us on Monday, October 21 with your Green Pastures stories!

Mark your calendars for Monday, October 21! Please join us in the Masonic Theatre Underground, and bring your stories of Green Pastures!

08/23/2024

07/16/2024

A wonderful crowd attended the debut of "What's Your Story? The Arts in the Alleghany Highlands" tonight at The Historic Masonic Theatre. The book is for sale at the Alleghany Highlands Arts & Crafts Center and the School of the Arts! It is filled with amazing images of local artists from the region!

07/03/2024

You are cordially invited!!!

07/01/2024

On Monday, July 15, at 7 pm, Volume 6 of the What’s Your Story? oral history book project will be unveiled at the Historic Masonic Theatre. “The Arts in the Alleghany Highlands” includes narratives shared by the founders of the Highlands arts institutions and groups, as well as dozens of profiles and photographs of the area’s working artists.
“We started the What’s Your Story? project in 2016, our first book focusing on the long, fascinating history of The Historic Masonic Theatre. It was a joy to hear the stories of those who remembered what it had been over the decades, to capture their expressions as they talked about the movies and performances they’d seen,” says Project Director Joan Vannorsdall. “We’ve done books on the C&O Railway, Green Pastures Recreation Area, Dabney S. Lancaster (now Mountain Gateway) Community College, and the COVID epidemic. The stories—and the incredible photographs and storyteller portraits done by Chuck Almarez—are priceless. We’re so
grateful to those who have shared their stories over the past nine years,” Vannorsdall says.
“This book stands alone as a thing of beauty. As you’d expect of a book about the arts, color and visual images predominate, and Chuck Almarez worked hard to get it all artfully displayed.
Painters and potters and photographers; dancers and muralists and musicians; quilters and basket makers and woodworkers…our place is rich with artists and the organizations that support them. This
book celebrates our many creators, risk-takers, doers and makers.”
Copies of all the What’s Your Story? volumes will be for sale at the July 15 th event. The books are also available at the Alleghany Highlands Arts and Crafts Center and the Clifton Forge School of
the Arts.

06/27/2024

Stay tuned for the new What's Your Story? book--the sixth in the series of books showcasing the great stories of the Alleghany Highlands. Volume Six is "The Arts in the Alleghany Highlands" and includes stories and photos of some of the many artists in our community. The book is at the printers and we'll be sharing the date, time and location for the book debut soon!

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About What’s Your Story?

What's Your Story? is a storygathering project based on a fundamental truth: when people feel listened to—that their ideas and stories matter not just to them, but to the whole community—big things can happen. What's Your Story? is a community-building project that records, transcribes, and publishes stories from every part of our community in the Alleghany Highlands. By listening to what people remember about their pasts, we can draw a clearer picture of how to go forward.

What's Your Story? is an outreach project that works on the understanding that storytelling is the single most powerful tool we have to communicate our thoughts, passions, fears, and dreams. Character. Plot. Setting. Point of view. Stories are much the same as they are different—just like the people who tell them.

To date, the What's Your Story? project has published four volumes:

Volume I: Remembering the Historic Masonic Theatre