About Virginia Currents
Virginia Currents celebrates its 20th season on the air! Join us as host May-Lily Lee celebrates the people and places of the Commonwealth.
If you are a longtime citizen, there’s always the familiar and the sentimental – the scenes of your childhood – people from your past and stories that make you proud to be part of our glorious state. For children, the program offers the chance to learn about home and place. For parents, it’s an opportunity to share your pride in the natural beauty and culture of your community.
This season, Virginia Currents visits with a family dealing with the joys and challenges of a child with Cerebral Palsy; goes ghost-hunting in Richmond; learns about “prawn” farming in Chester; and takes a dip in a therapeutic pool in Goochland where pups go to rehab. Host Lee and the crew also sit down and talk with author David Baldacci as he offers some behind-the-scenes tales of what goes into his books; goes along on the “Ride for Jim,” a cross-country bicycle ride to help raise money for VCU medical students finding a cure for cancer; and looks at the newly renovated Moton Museum in Prince Edward County, where exhibits will focus on the conditions at the Moton High School in 1951 and the judicial battle for desegregation through the Brown v. Board of Education.
The 20th season of this award-winning newsmagazine series is produced in the studios of Commonwealth Public Broadcasting.