The next program in the Virginia Heritage Resource Center's Mining the
Treasure House Lecture series will take place at noon on Thursday, 12
September, 2002, in the conference rooms adjacent to the lobby in the
Library of Virginia at 800 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond.

The speaker will be Dr. Gregg Kimball, Assistant Director of the
Publications and Educational Services Division at the Library of Virginia.
The title of his talk is, "Sinners, Songsters, and Saints: The 1936 Virginia
Prison Recordings." In that year two musicologists recorded music by African
American inmates at the Virginia State Penitentiary and the Virginia State
Prison Farm as part of a larger project to record American folk songs. The
talk is one of a series of talks being given at the Library in conjunction
with the "Virginia Roots Music" exhibition currently on display there.

Minor Weisiger
Library of Virginia
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