NewsVisions of Style
How Black Virginians used the camera to define themselves at the turn of the 20th Century.
EventLocks Opened: Left Behind
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold, looks at the fugitive slaves from the Underground Railroad and shares what they left behind – family, clothes, name, even life.
EventLocks Opened: Sanctuary
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares stories and songs that remind us that we should be a people lighting the way to a refuge of freedom.
EventLocks Opened: Waterways to Freedom
Through story and song, Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares about local waterways that were part of the Underground Railroad.
EventLocks 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.”
EventLocks Opened: EXTRA ORDINARY!
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares the most extraordinary and death-defying escapes for freedom by fugitive enslaved people.
EventLocks Opened: CAUGHT!
Hear Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold share stories of those who were caught riding the Underground Railroad.
EventTimes Too Hard
Join us and the Library of Virginia as Arlisha Norwood, Ph.D., a Virginia Humanities Fellow at the Library, discusses her research exploring the experiences of single African American women in …
EventJuneteenth at Red Hill
Come and enjoy Juneteenth, Sunday, June 19, 2022, with free admission to Patrick Henry’s Red Hill.
EventThere All Along
Join Reclaiming the Monument, the American Civil War Museum, and the Valentine on Friday, April 22, 2022, 6:00-9:00pm as they uncover untold truths and hidden histories of espionage, perseverance, and courage inside the Executive …
