The next program in the Virginia Heritage Resource Center's Mining the
Treasure House lecture series will be held at noon on Tuesday, 3 April
2007 in the conference rooms adjacent to the lobby of the Library of
Virginia at 800 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond. Dr. Agnes E.
Gish will present a talk entitled Virginia Houses of Entertainment:
Ordinaries, Taverns and Coffee Houses,  and will share comments on her
more than 20 years researching the public and private houses of
entertainment for her book, Virginia Taverns. These taverns accommodated
travelers by providing the public with "spirituous liquors," food,
lodging, and pasturage or stablage for the traveler's horse from the
moment the first colonists arrived early in the 1600s until the demise
of the stage coach era in the mid-1800s. Dr. Gish and her husband
restored French's Tavern in Powhatan County.
 
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