Two items that may be of interest to the list. 1) The first is the naming of a campus building after a man William and Mary enslaved in the late 18th Century: http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/history-made-wm-dedicates-first-buildings-named-for-people-of-color.php <http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/history-made-wm-dedicates-first-buildings-named-for-people-of-color.php> We don’t know much about Lemon but we know a little: https://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Lemon 2) The annual Lemon Project Symposium will be held in the spring, at William and Mary, March 17-18, at Miller Hall, the Mason School of Business. The theme will be "Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter.” I will distribute the call for papers when that is ready. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ <http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/> http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html <http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html> ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?.... Well, we can't afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers." ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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