family updates

What is it like to be around greatness everyday? LaVella Hyter is absolutely the person to answer this question. Bring your imagination because this answer isn’t a sentence. It’s a picture of history through memory and feeling. LaVella Hyter on…

For Vincent Newsom, much of his Roberts Settlement memory is built upon the small, everyday moments of generational family community. Sunday dinners, his great grandmother’s journals, and the annual homecoming celebrations of his childhood fill in his story as he…

Lezli Davis’ affinity for genealogy has served her – and the Roberts Settlement – well. Davis’ gift for connecting the historical dots has given her several discoveries over the years as she persistently works to put names from documents to…