By Staff Reports on 1 February 2010
New trustees will serve from 2010 to 2015.
Posted in Feature, News, People | Tagged VHS, Virginia Historical Society
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 9 September 2009; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Virginia Historical Society’s (VHS) visit to the state’s heartland begins with a visit to the D-Day Memorial in Bedford County. This rural community experienced the country’s severest per capita losses on D-Day. The Memorial is a tribute to the valor, fidelity, and scarify of the Armed Forces on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged National D-Day Memorial, Poplar Forest, VHS
By Staff Reports on 25 August 2009
[ 3 September 2009; 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. ] Virginia Historical Society (VHS) Trustee and Fourth Circuit Judge Roger Gregory will take VHS members behind-the-scenes of this National Historical Landmark which dates to 1858. Now named the Lewis F. Powell, Jr., U.S. Courthouse, it is an impressive example of the Italianate architecture that became popular in this country during the third quarter of the nineteenth century.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged Richmond, VHS
By Staff Reports on 16 January 2009
In the words of Virginia Historical Society (VHS) Board of Trustees Chairman J. Stewart Bryan, III, November 19, 2008, was a bittersweet day – President and CEO Dr. Charles F. Bryan, Jr., was retiring after twenty years of leading the society.
Posted in News | Tagged VHS, Virginia Historical Society
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