• Connecting the Generations: Recognizing & Sharing Family Treasures

    Jones Memorial Library 2311 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg, United States

    Due to winter weather, this event is postponed from Feb. 22 to March 22. Join Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest’s African American Advisory Group for this special talk and workshop uncovering how you can get started with your genealogy and how you can use family treasures to learn about your family history. Hosted at the Jones […]

  • ‘Return to the Reich: German Jewish Emigres and the Holocaust’ with Brian E. Crim

    Jones Memorial Library 2311 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg, United States

    The Holocaust Education Foundation of Central Virginia sponsors a lecture at Jones Memorial Library. Come hear how a secret military intelligence unit composed of German Jewish refugees took on the Nazis during World War 2. This lecture is free and open to the public.

  • John D. Owen Jr. History Lecture: Hutcherson Funeral Home

    Jones Memorial Library 2311 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg, United States

    Jones Memorial Library history lecture with Carl Hutcherson. Located in the heart of Fifth Street, the Hutcherson Funeral Home got its start in 1939. Founded by Carl B. Hutcherson (1912-1972), the company offers funeral planning and services. Born of necessity during the Jim Crow era of strict racial segregation that impacted Americans from cradle to […]

  • Who Was John Brown?

    Jones Memorial Library 2311 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg, United States