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Posted on March 3, 2012 by Legacy Museum

Legacy Museum of African American History Annual Banquet
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 3:00 pm
James River Conference Center; 400 Court Street; Lynchburg, VA
Speakers: The Honorable Shannon Valentine and Dr. Augustus A. Petticolas, Jr.
Price: $50.00 per person
 
 

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Hollers, Harps, and Hambone

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Legacy Museum

Hollers, Harps, and Hambone: Traditional African American Music 1800-1900
An enthusiastic audience packed the Activity Center on Saturday, February 25 for an educational concert of  19th c. African American music presented by musicians and teachers from  the Lynchburg Music Center.
As Tina Kepel –Young, Director of Education at the Center took the audience through the musical history [...]

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Trouble Don’t Las’ Always to open June 30, 2012

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Legacy Museum

Trouble Don’t Las’ Always: African American Life During and After the Civil War in Central Virginia, 1860-1890 to open Saturday, June 30, 2012
The Legacy Museum’s eleventh annual exhibit, Trouble Don’t Las’ Always, curated by Dianne Swann Wright will explore and contrast what life was like for African Americans in Central Virginia when ‘Trouble’ ws in [...]

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