Author Joyce Wilburn

William Tell Fritzler—who goes by Tell—admits that his parents had “a heck of a sense of humor” when naming him. Sitting behind his desk at the Boys & Girls Clubs in the Danville Area (BGCDA), the...

For the past 24 years, Debra Parker, owner and operator of the Heart Line Restaurant on Riverside Drive, has awakened at 3:00 a.m. By 6:00 a.m. she has coffee ready for her early-morning regulars. They...

Most Danville area residents are familiar with the 170-acre Dan Daniel Memorial Park on River Park Drive and the half-acre Veterans Memorial located to the left of its entrance, but to fully understand the...

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. When poet William Wallace wrote that line in 1865, he was probably thinking about a feminine hand guiding her offspring to maturity. In 2014,...

itting on a comfy sofa in the 1931 Georgian Revival home built for John Schoolfield, Jr., the scion of the mill dynasty that became Dan River Mills, Kim Gentry recalls the time she and future husband,...

During the week, Danville native Sara Spissu is a loan administrator at CIT, but on weekends she transforms into a curator, mender, photographer, model, seller and shipper of vintage clothing on eBay and...

Julie Brown calls it “calculated serendipity.” Ethan Brown refers to it as “destiny.” Overlooking that minor difference, the couple agrees that the reason they will be opening Virginia’s first...

Amanda McBride is a woman of firm convictions. The Operations and Marketing Manager at the Danville Mall on Piedmont Drive and Liberty Fair Mall in Martinsville is a self-described woman of faith, always puts...