New Journal and Guide
Documentary lovers can now watch the 225-year-old history of Norfolk’s historic First Baptist Church-Bute Street.
“If These Walls Could Talk,” guides you through the church’s humble beginning, which began in a small building with White and Black congregants. The tenure of several White pastors is described, as well as the controversial 1866-1848 tenure of the Rev. James Mitchell, an Englishman, whose wife died and he married a Black woman, Lucy, in 1839, at a time when a $250 state fine aimed to discourage ministers from marrying interracial couples…