I am submitting this for everyone on the list's information.

 

Janet Perkins

 

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Please pass on to any and all who might be interested. Hope we'll see
you there!

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Tech Professor to Speak on Virginia History

 

MECHANICSVILLE-Noted historian Peter Wallenstein is coming to the Atlee
Branch Library in Hanover County to speak on a topic from his latest
book, Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History (University
Press of Kansas).  

 

The event, to be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, is free and
open to the public. A formal presentation by Wallenstein on Virginia's
400-year-old relationship with America-from the colonial beginnings to
the most recent presidential election-will be followed by a
question-and-answer session and a book signing. Copies will be on sale
at the venue ($25; cash or check accepted).

 

Cradle of America traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk
narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the
Commonwealth. 

 

One reviewer wrote, "From Pocahontas to Patsy Cline, from William Byrd I
to Harry Byrd Jr., Cradle of America brings to life 400 years of
Virginia history." Others have praised it as "compelling," "a gift of
magnificent proportions," and "the most innovative and imaginative
history of the Old Dominion we have yet seen." The Library of Virginia
recently named Cradle of America as one of its three 2008 finalists for
the best work of nonfiction.

 

Wallenstein, a professor of history at Virginia Tech for more than 25
years, is the author of five previous books, including Blue Laws and
Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia
and Virginia Tech, Land-Grant University, 1872-1997: History of a
School, a State, a Nation. He holds degrees from Columbia and Johns
Hopkins universities. 

 

The event is being sponsored by the Friends of the Atlee Branch Library.


 

The Atlee Branch Library is located at 9161 Atlee Road, just south of
Route 301, in the Mechanicsville section of Hanover County. For more
information, contact the library at (804) 559-0654.

 

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