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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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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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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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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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The Poetic Justice

John Charles Thomas’s memoir “The Poetic Justice” reflects his twin loves of the law and of poetry, keeping readers rooted to the urgent issues that rock our communities.

March 26, 2023 | 12PM – 1PM
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Mid-Century Fiction Lunch

Ticketed Event

From Jamila Minnicks, winner of the 2021 Penn/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction, and Sadeqa Johnson, the Library of Virginia People’s Choice award-winning author, come two novels set in the 1950s.

March 25, 2023 | 12PM – 1:30PM
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National Book Foundation Presents: An Afternoon with the National Book Awards

John Keene (“Punks: New & Selected Poems”) and Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa (“His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice”) discuss how singular stories collectively shape history.

March 25, 2023 | 4PM – 5PM
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2023 Same Page Community Read

Ticketed Event

We’re pleased to share that our 2023 Same Page featured book is Ross Gay’s “The Book of Delights.” Gay will be in conversation about this book and his most recent work, “Inciting Joy.”

March 25, 2023 | 2PM – 3PM
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American Inheritance

Ticketed Event

In “American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795,” Edward J. Larson grapples with the legacy of enslavement in America.

March 26, 2023 | 2PM – 3PM
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Furious Flower Poetry Hour

Join past and present members of JMU’s Furious Flower Poetry Center for poetry readings and discussion.

March 24, 2023 | 4PM – 5PM
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