Show your support for Culpeper local businesses by visiting booths and tents of fellow members of the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce at CulpeperFest, being held at the Germanna Community College's Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper.

The Germanna Foundation will have a booth to promote the Germanna Conference and Reunion coming up July 16-18, 2010. A schedule and registration information are posted at http://www.germanna.org/conference2010.

CulpeperFest is an annual local showcase of Culpeper community businesses, industries and services.

The Orange County Historical Society invites you to join members of the public at Graham Cemetery to dedicate a grave marker honoring musician "Banjo" Sam Sweeny on Monday, June 7, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. Sam, along with his brothers, was quite famous 150 years ago as the Sweeny family popularized the five-string banjo and made it into the major instrument it is today. Sam died in Orange in 1864, while serving as J.E.B. Stuart's favorite banjo player.

On Saturday, June 12, start the day at 10:00 a.m. with Germanna Foundation Trustee Kathy Ellis on the Brandy Station Foundation tour of Kelly’s Ford and Stevensburg – it will give you a deeper understanding of fighting that took place in the vicinity of Salubria, a colonial home in Stevensburg donated by the Grayson family to the Germanna Foundation in 2000.

At 3:00 p.m. on June 12, friends of the Germanna Foundation will celebrate the 700th anniversary of Anzhausen with birthday cake and light refreshments. The public is invited.

The Reverend Joie Weiher will officiate at the Service of the Holy Eucharist as it would have been done at St. James during its short life from 1840 to 1863. Period music will be provided by Anne Howard & John Tole of Evergreen Shade. The service is being held to commemorate the memory of those men who gave their lives at the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863 and other battles, many of whom were buried where they fell at or near the St. James Church site. The historic site is 2 acres of woods with a good clear path but appropriate footwear is recommended.