Do you use cemetery records to trace your family tree? Are you curious to
know what historic buildings were still standing in the 1930s? Why was a
mural painted in the post office in a Virginia town? Who built the state
parks and their rustic cabins? What did a woman in Appalachia think about
her life in 1938?

Answers to these and other questions can be found because of government
programs that put men and women, black and white, young and old, blue collar
and white collar, to work during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Some of
the projects yielded collections of materials that we still use today in
genealogical, historical, sociological, and cultural research.

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce a major new exhibition,
"Legacies of the New Deal in Virginia," on display in the main exhibition
gallery adjacent to the lobby of the Library of Virginia at 800 East Broad
Street in downtown Richmond. The exhibition can be viewed from 9:00 A.M. to
5:00 P.M., Monday through Saturday from now through 6 December 2003.

In the lobby of the Library of Virginia is another new exhibition,
"Virginia'a Washington Monument," treating the creation of the famous
equestrian statue of George Washington that stands in Capitol Square in
Richmond. This exhibition will be on view through 5 July 2003.

The Library's reading rooms and research facilities are open to the public
9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Tuesday through Saturday, holidays excepted. There
is free underground parking for visitors and patrons of the Library of
Virginia.

For more information on these and other programs and services of the Library
of Virginia, please call 804-692-3592 or visit the Library's web site at
http://www.lva.lib.va.us <http://www.lva.lib.va.us>

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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