Vinton County has a historical society located in 'Alice's house'. They have computers and publish a newsletter with bits from old newspapers and sometimes direct pages from the two main history books. Older newspapers were far better than today's version from Vinton county. It is common for me to look through 1960's papers and see 7 or 8 names that I know or was related to. The Vinton Courier was idle for a while and news was combined with a Jackson county paper. The latest courier is printed by the Athens Messenger company and no longer has Gossip-society columns from local residents. In it's place are advertisements and such instead of who was visiting who or who was made president of a quilt club or who got hurt etc.