Lectures
All lectures are held at the Jones Memorial Library and begin at 5:00 P.M.
For more details call (434) 846-0501.

“THE HISTORY OF HOSPITALS IN LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA”
May 19, 2010
by George Dawson & Dr. Peter Houck
George Dawson & Dr. Peter Houck, of Centra Health, will discuss the history of Lynchburg’s hospitals.

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“HURRICANE CAMILLE”
September 16, 2009
by Ed Tinsley
Forty years ago, on the night of August 19 and 20, 1969, Nelson County was hit by Hurricane Camille with destructive high winds, and an estimated 40 inches of rain fell in less than eight hours. Businesses, homes, and out buildings washed away. More than 900 buildings were destroyed in Nelson County. Twenty-two members of one family perished in the flooding, and official state records say that 53 died in the Davis Creek area alone. Mr. Tinsley will present slides of the event and give details of this great tragedy.

“JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR”
October 21, 2009
by Dean Knight, Supervisor of White House Operations, Museum of the Confederacy
This lecture will discuss events and topics concerning the end of the Civil War with special focus on the role of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis. Some of the questions to be addressed in the lecture are: When exactly did the war come to an end, and who, or what, ended it? What was Davis’ idea of the role he had in leading the Confederate war effort, and ending it? What makes the end of this war different from the ending of other wars in which the US has been involved?

“A CREATIVE DYNASTY OF VIRGINIA WOMEN”
November 18, 2009
by Andrew Gladwell, Exhibition Designer, Virginia Historical Society
This lecture discusses a unique combination of art, women’s and family history and the presentation of fine arts and performance art. The program highlights a century of artistic accomplishment by Julia Anne (Morrison) Blount (1831-1877); her daughter, Sallie Lee (Blount) Mahood (1864-1953); her daughter, Helen Gray (Mahood) McGehee (1892-1980); and her daughter, Helen Gray (McGehee) Umaña (b. 1921).

“THE HISTORY OF LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESS IN LYNCHBURG”
March 17, 2010
by Representatives of Five Locally Owned Businesses
Bert Dodson, for Dodson Bros. Exterminating Co, Ebo Fauber for Fauber Architecture, Mike Baer, for Baer & Sons Memorials, Hal Craddock, for Craddock-Terry Shoe Co.) & Ted Delaney for Diuguid Funeral Home) will continue a program given in October 2008. Representatives of five more Lynchburg locally owned businesses will make a brief presentation about the history of the company and answer questions from the audience. Invite a friend to come and join in reminiscing about days gone by.

“THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA:
THE GOLDEN AGE OF LIVE PERFORMANCES”
April 21, 2010
by Dr. James M. Elson
Dr. Elson is the author of the 1993 published work of the same name and was the Academy of Music Theatre, Inc.’s first executive directory (1984-1988). He will present a history of the near-quarter century (1905-1928) when the great stars of the theater and music world came in person to the Hill City to perform on the stag e of the Academy’s acoustically perfect auditorium. His presentation will be illustrated by slides of pictures taken from his book on the Academy and will consider some of Lynchburg’s other theatrical venues during the early Twentieth Century.