Upcoming Programs at the Library of Virginia
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
_The Headmaster Ritual_ by Taylor Antrim
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
FREE EVENT
Taylor Antrim discusses and signs his debut novel, _The Headmaster Ritual_, a
darkly comic, clear-eyed look into the hidden worlds of an exclusive
Massachusetts boarding school. Edward Wolfe, the school’s politically radical
headmaster, Dyer Martin, a new history teacher, and lonely senior James
Wolfe are inescapably drawn into the headmaster’s hidden agenda for Britton
School.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
One Voice Concert—Why Don’t You Rock My Soul: A Celebration of Virginia
Music
Time: 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
FEE. Tickets $10. Reservations required please call 804-692-3900.
Please join us for a “Why Don’t You Rock My Soul: A Celebration of Virginia
Music,” a concert by One Voice, an interracial community chorus in Richmond
that performs choral music and promotes racial reconciliation. This concert
features music from the Library of Virginia’s collections. A 6:00 PM reception
precedes this concert.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
_The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family_ by Annette Gordon-Reed
Time: 2:00 PM–3:00PM
Place: Conference Rooms
Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at New York Law School and professor
of history at Rutgers University, discusses and signs _The Hemingses of
Monticello_, her epic work tracing the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia
in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Thomas Jefferson’s death in 1826.
It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their
children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife,
Martha. _The Hemingses of Monticello_ sets the family's compelling saga
against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own
revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello.
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Attend and Win a Featured Book!
The Library of Virginia will hold a drawing for a FREE COPY of the featured
author’s work at each of its Book Talk events. Registration takes place before
each event. You must be present to win.
Copies of the featured books are available in the Virginia Shop at the Library
of Virginia: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwedo/shop.htm .
The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown
Richmond. Free parking is available underneath the building.
www.lva.virginia.gov
804.692.3500
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