State Theatre receives donation

posted by Michael Zoldessy on August 23, 2006 at 7:22 am

CULPEPER, VA — The State Theatre received a large donation to help it reopen as an arts center.

The fire in Atlanta, Ga. – as portrayed in the movie – really burned the city to the ground in 1864. But like the post-Civil War south, the Pitts Theatre – renamed State in 1973 – will rise again.

And the Smoot family – longtime proprietors of Cherry Street Building Supply on Orange Road – is helping to hoist it with a $50,000 donation.

For more, read the full story in the Culpepper Star-Exponent.

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