Annual Legacy Dinner

Don’t miss the Legacy Annual Dinner!
April 21, 2013

3:00 pm
James River Conference Center

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE MUSEUM – 434.845.3455!

Featuring: FREED: Female Re-Enactors of Distinction
African American Ladies of the Civil War Auxiliary Organization of the African American Civil War Museum.

Dinner music generously donated by Apple Butter Soul.

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Trouble Don’t Las Always

“Trouble Don’t Las’ Always” ” African American Life in Central Virginia During and After the Civvil War, 1860-1890 will be on display from June 30, 2012-May 30, 2014. 

This exhibit explores what life was like for African Americans in Central Virginia when trouble was in their lives, wreaking havoc in every possible way. Trouble for this region’s thousands of African American, enslaved and free, was the years before and during the Civil War.  This exhibit also explores how African Americans fared when trouble was over and always began. Always in this exhibit is the 25 years following the War, when freedom came and long-hoped for-opportunities began.

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Docent Training at the Legacy Museum

Dr. Swann-Wright (lright) explains artifacts to docents

On Saturday, August 4, Dianne Swann-Wright, curator for the Museum’s new exhibit, “Trouble Don’t Las Always” led a training session for museum docents. Dr. Swann-Wright explained how to give public tours to adults and children; the historic context for the exhibit, and how to talk about text panels, artifacts and exhibit themes. And, she led the participants through the exhibit and discussed each of the text panels and artifacts in detail. The group including members of the Legacy Project Board of directors,  ’seasoned’ docents, and three high school students  all of whom were able to put the information they learned to good use at the opening the next day.

Docents in training

 

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