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Sep 17, 2009 | Gazette Journal

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Lionel Jenkins, a lifelong Guinea waterman and farmer, was chosen to be the grand marshall of this year's Guinea Jubilee Parade.

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Mon Aug 31, 2009

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Bena Country Store folk music series starts Saturday

High-quality, homespun music is what the Guinea Concert Series, starting Saturday, offers folk fans.

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Sat Aug 29, 2009

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Now in his mid-80s, country barber still comes in to tend his flock

Templeman opened his rural Gloucester barber shop in 1948, right after he got out of barber school, and he's still going strong in his mid-80s. 247-4783 August 30, 2009 Gone are the days when the watermen and farmers of Guinea Neck would come to this rural crossroads at 9 or 10 p.m. on a Friday night and wait in line for Wilbur Templeman's ...

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

Gazette Journal

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The Rowe sisters, from left, Frances Brown, Judy Mays and Nan Evans, look over their publication "Riley Remembrances," a family history/cookbook compiling nearly 50 years of family reunions.

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