Press Releases & Other Stories
With summer around the corner, where will you find Virginia Folklife Director Jon Lohman? Try visiting any one of these traditional music and cultural festivals across Virginia.
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VFH grant helps support a posthumously book by Frances Latimer that describe the struggles of African-Americans from the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
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In the town of Eastville, population about 300, visitors can browse through the nation’s oldest continuous court records. The first few pages are tattered from hundreds of years of use, and from being carried home to home or home to tavern, wherever the court was scheduled to meet in the early days of the colony. [...]
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Virginia 2012-2013 LAL 1st Place and Honorable Mention Letters announced for this reading and writing program for students in grades 4-12.
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From UVA Today – Awhile back, we posted about how the award-winning, nationally syndicated “BackStory with the American History Guys” public radio program was taking off. Now its sister program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, “With Good Reason,” is getting its own boost. Beginning Thursday, the weekly public radio show — which highlights [...]
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In reading a recent Piedmont Council for the Arts newsletter, I came across the announcement for a Miniature Book show. The books looked lushly handmade, there were several of them from an international curation and it wasn’t that long ago that a good friend had done a thesis show curating handmade books in Richmond.
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FairfaxTimes.com focuses in on a historic marker at the Frying Pan Farm Meeting House in Herndon. For further information on the meeting house, see VFH’s African American Historic Sites Database.
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We’ve reached the shore! The Lake Michigan Shore, that is. Shore magazine discusses the appeal of podcasts and names some favorite podcasts, including our own BackStory with the American History Guys.
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The News & Advance of Lynchburg weighs in on poetry written by VFH’s Karenne Wood. Wood, with fellow poet Allison Hedge Coke, will lead a poetry reading at Randolph College on April 10.
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