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Locks Opened: Waterways to Freedom

Through story and song, Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares about local waterways that were part of the Underground Railroad.

June 17, 2023 | 7PM | Chesapeake
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Locks Opened: Children at the Border

The Underground Railroad of the 1800s did not just help free adults. Many a child came with, and without, parents, often through the same perils and sometimes in “plain sight.”

May 27, 2023 | 1PM | Chesapeake
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Locks Opened: EXTRA ORDINARY!

Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares the most extraordinary and death-defying escapes for freedom by fugitive enslaved people.

June 3, 2023 | 4PM | Portsmouth
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Locks Opened: CAUGHT!

Hear Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold share stories of those who were caught riding the Underground Railroad.

April 15, 2023 | 5PM | Yorktown
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Juneteenth Celebration

Join the Josephine School Community Museum, the Josephine Improvement Association, and the Clarke County Training School-Johnson Williams High School Reunion Association for their second annual Juneteenth Celebration.

June 17, 2023 | 11AM | Berryville
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Between Sound and Silence

Encore! Access Virginia’s “Between Sound and Silence” video production which made its debut in November 2022, will be shown again thanks to the Hearing Loss Association of America – Rappahannock …

March 27, 2023 | 11AM – 1PM | Fredericksburg & Online
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Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the final installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.

November 14, 2023 | 6PM – 7PM | Staunton
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Alexander Spotswood’s Germanna: A Gateway to Colonial Virginia’s West

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the next installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.

September 19, 2023 | 6PM – 7PM | Staunton
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women, ‘Wild Justice’ & Lethal Resistance to Slavery

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the next installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.

July 25, 2023 | 6PM – 7PM | Staunton
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Reclaiming Two-Spirits: How Native Americans Revitalized an Almost Lost Tradition

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the next installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.

May 23, 2023 | 6PM – 7PM | Staunton
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Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the next installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.

March 21, 2023 | 6PM – 7PM | Staunton
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Red Hill Rediscovered: Lost Buildings of Red Hill Walking Tour

Join Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Memorial Curator Cody Youngblood on a walking tour of Red Hill’s historic property.

November 4, 2023 | 2PM – 3:30PM | Brookneal
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