A Winter & Spring Lecture Series is being offered by Gadsby's Tavern
Museum, Friends of Alexandria Archaeology, Carlyle House, and the
Alexandria Historical Society. Dates and topics include:

Saturday, January 24 – 10:00 a.m. at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
134 N. Royal Street, Old Town Alexandria
The Friends of Alexandria Archaeology, in cooperation with Carlyle House,
host a “Java Jolt” presentation featuring Dr. Steven Shephard, Assistant
City Archaeologist. Dr. Shephard’s lecture, “Reaching for the Channel: Some
Documentary and Archaeological Evidence of Extending the Alexandria
Waterfront,” will present some of the intriguing documentary and
archaeological findings relating to the “banking out” process with the hope
of offering a better understanding of this 18th-century transformation of
the Alexandria waterfront.

Wednesday, March 24 – 7:30 p.m. at The Lyceum, Alexandria’s History Museum
201 S. Washington Street, Old Town Alexandria
Professor Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Assistant
Attorney General of the United States under Lyndon Johnson, will speak on
his book, Jefferson’s Pillow. Co-sponsored with Carlyle House and the
Alexandria Historical Society.

Wednesday, April 21 – 7:30 p.m. at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
134 N. Royal Street, Old Town Alexandria
Barbara Magid, Archaeologist with Alexandria Archaeology, presents Happy
with My Bowl & Friend: The Archaeology of Alexandria’s Taverns. Presented
with Friends of Alexandria Archaeology and the Carlyle House. Ms. Magid has
co-authored an article in the Ceramics in America Series by the Chipstone
Foundation. Her article is entitled, “In the Philadelphia Style: The
Pottery of Henry Piercy.”

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