
This article was published in the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post on May 25, 2005. As discussed in the article, the Main Street Live project was extremely controversial within the community.
Later, a very similar venue opened in a different building just off Main Street. This off-Main building had been owned by the family of a woman who had worked as the office manager at my former father-in-law's and brother-in-law's law firm. A few months after she suddenly left her job with them, she was found dead along the side of a road near Stonewall, reportedly of a broken neck in a U.S. mail delivery vehicle that had little damage.