August Events at the Library of Virginia

"Books on Broad" Featuring Ellen Crosby 
Thursday, August 12, 2010 
Time: 5:30 PM-7:30 PM 
Place: The Virginia Shop

Join us for the "Books on Broad" Book Club at the Virginia Shop, an
informal gathering where Ellen Crosby will speak about and read from The
Viognier Vendetta: A Wine Country Mystery with Virginia vintner Lucie
Montgomery. Featuring an absorbing plot, colorful characters, and
fascinating winemaking detail, The Viognier Vendetta combines an
entertaining mystery with the luminous prose that has become Crosby's
trademark. 

  

Osher Institute Mini-Course: Genealogy for Beginners at the Library of
Virginia 
August 16, 18, 23, and 25, 2010 
Time: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM 
Place: Computer Lab,  Fee $60 for Osher Silver members, free for Osher
Gold/Gold Plus One members 

Get started on finding your family history! The class will begin with an
introduction to the basics, followed with setting goals, keeping
organized, and identifying resources. Led by Donna Shumate, the class
will focus on using the Library of Virginia's rich on-site and online
collections of Virginia heritage. For registration information, visit
http://scs.richmond.edu/osher/. 

 

Library closing early 
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The reading rooms of the Library of Virginia and the State Records
Center will be closed from noon through 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August
18, so staff can participate in a session on security training. We
apologize for any inconvenience this may cause as we work to ensure a
safer environment for our staff and patrons. 

 

Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks 
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 
Time: Noon-1:00 PM 
Place: Conference Rooms

Join us for a talk and book signing for Bryant Simon's Everything but
the Coffee. Simon spent five years visiting more than 400 Starbucks
locations in 10 countries around the world while researching his book.
Everything but the Coffee probes the company's psychological, emotional,
political, and sociological power to discover how Starbucks' explosive
success and rapid deflation exemplify American culture at this
historical moment. Most importantly, it shows that Starbucks speaks to a
deeply felt American need for predictability and class standing,
community and authenticity, revealing that Starbucks' appeal lies not in
its coffee but in the easily consumed identity it offers. 




The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 
Time: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM 
Place: Lecture Hall

Join us for a talk and book signing by Rebecca Skloot as she takes us on
an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins
Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of
HeLa cells; from Henrietta's small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia,
to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live, and
struggle with the legacy of her cells. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but
scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor southern tobacco farmer who
worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells-taken without
her knowledge-became one of the most important tools in medicine. The
first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive
today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years. The Immortal
Life of Henrietta Lacks is an important and provocative story of racism,
greed, science, and ethics. 

 

 

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Tameka B. Hobbs

Program & Education Manager

Education and Outreach Division

The Library of Virginia

800 East Broad Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000

804.371.2126 - office

804.692.3814 - fax 

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