The Lancaster Virginia Historical Society will co-host a local Black History Month presentation, “Old Saint John’s Baptist Church and Cemetery: Revisiting a Community’s Legacy of Faith” on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 1 p.m. at Lancaster Community Library in Kilmarnock. Doors open at 12:30, and admission is free. For more information and a link for virtual viewing, visit the LVHS website LancasterVaHistory.org or call 804-462-7280. The program will feature members of the Old Saint John’s Baptist Church Cemetery Project Committee, a citizen committee co-chaired by Pastor Tyron Williams of Mount Olive Baptist Church and history advocate Francine Aytes Hunter. Williams, Hunter, and other local church and community leaders will discuss the history, significance, and families of Old Saint John’s and the recent efforts to document and restore the cemetery. According to the committee’s research, Old Saint John’s Baptist Church was organized in 1868 as the first independent Black congregation in Lanca...