Anne Adams drove her 27-year-old Mazda over the gently rolling hills of Highland County, Virginia, a faded but prominent “Press” sticker glued to the front windshield.
She passed farms, bright white churches and the occasional sugar shack — for which the region is well known for making maple syrup — on her way to the day’s assignment.
Adams — owner, publisher, reporter and photographer for The Recorder — arrived to cover a memorial for a local woman whose remains were recently found 51 years after she went missing. As she has done thousands of times before, Adams would bring to light a small, new and important story for her community.
“What I just learned early on was the newspaper, in a place this small, you can have a very positive effect,” Adams said. “Once you realize how critical that is, then it just motivates you.”
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