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. There is free underground parking for Library patrons but please note that space is limited. For more information on this and other programs and services of the Library of Virginia please visit the Library's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us <http://www.lva.lib.va.us/> or call 804-692-3592. To subscribe, change options or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html <http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html> or http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html <http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html