"Saving Mr. Jefferson's House: The Levy's and Monticello, A Drama in
Five Acts" -- is the topic of this year's 16th Annual Browns-Lyons
Lecture to be held tomorrow night, Thursday, March 29th, at 8pm at VCU's
School of.Engineering Auditorium, 601
West Main Street  The event is sponsored by VCU Center for Judaic
Studies
and the VCU Friends of the Library and is free and open to the public.

Dr. Melvin I. Urofsky, the Director of the Doctoral Program at VCU's
Center for Public Policy, will present a lecture that examines the
little known history of the Levy's, a Jewish American family that owned
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello for over 90 years. A reception will follow
the lecture.

For more information, contact Contact: Melinda Gales at (804) 828-1108.


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Ray Bonis
Assistant Archivist
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries

Phone: (804) 828-1108
FAX:  (804) 828-0151
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Web: www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/speccoll.html

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