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05-20-2009, 09:18
For anyone who is out in the area and looking for something low-cost for themselves or the family:
History buffs: Va. Historical Society offers free admission
May 20, 2009 - 6:58am
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Historical Society is offering free admission throughout the summer.
VHS President and Chief Executive Paul Levengood says the society understands that people are cutting back and wants to give them somewhere to go that is "enjoyable, educational and entertaining as well as close to home and affordable."
The VHS will display three exhibitions about the Vietnam era.
Admission will be free from June 6 through Aug. 30.
Street address
428 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220
Upcoming Vietnam-Era exhibitions
Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era
June 6–August 30, 2009
This award-winning exhibition, organized by the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, explores the issues, actions, reactions, and expressions of life and culture of African Americans as they were affected by the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Over 160 artifacts, photographs, reprographics, audio recordings, songs, oral histories, and an original documentary show how events in the 1960s helped frame African American political and social perspectives that extended beyond civil rights. The roles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Colin Powell, Jimi Hendrix, and many more are explored, as well as the 9,000 women who served as nurses and in clerical and support positions during the war. At the end of the exhibition, letters to the families of MIAs provide a lens for understanding postwar reflections.
Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam
June 6–August 30, 2009
Organized by the Vietnam Graffiti Project, this exhibition features a cache of Vietnam War soldier art of striking importance and poignancy. Soldiers and Marines on the ship USNS General Nelson M. Walker, bound for Vietnam in 1967, inscribed graffiti phrases and images on the bottom side of canvas bunks in the troop compartments. Men wrote their name and hometown, the date they expected to leave the service, and kept day-by-day calendars to mark the voyage progress. Original graffiti-covered canvases, discovered in the process of scrapping the vessel in 2005, display messages of patriotism, politics, humor, anxiety, and love.
Bring Paul Home: Phyllis Galanti and Vietnam War POWs
June 6–August 30, 2009
This exhibition is based on the collection given to the Virginia Historical Society by Richmond resident Phyllis Galanti. Her husband, Paul, was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy when his plane was shot down over Vietnam on June 17, 1966. Mr. Galanti was a Prisoner of War (POW) until February 12, 1973. Archival and museum objects from the donated collection show Mrs. Galanti's efforts, and those of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, to publicize the plight of their loved ones and to secure their release.
There is also a standing exhibit: The Virginia Manufactory of Arms Collection
From 1802 to 1821, the state of Virginia did not rely on the federal government to arm its militia but manufactured its own weapons. This new exhibition presents a comprehensive collection of the products of the Virginia Manufactory of Arms, a state-of-the-art water-powered facility that stood in Richmond. On display are flintlock muskets, rifles, pistols, and swords, including examples of the weapons that were used by the militia defending Virginia during the British campaigns on Chesapeake Bay in 1813–14. This collection is important not only as a chapter in the history of armament, but also as evidence of an episode in the evolution of state and national interests in the early American republic.
http://www.vahistorical.org/index.htm
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History buffs: Va. Historical Society offers free admission
May 20, 2009 - 6:58am
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Historical Society is offering free admission throughout the summer.
VHS President and Chief Executive Paul Levengood says the society understands that people are cutting back and wants to give them somewhere to go that is "enjoyable, educational and entertaining as well as close to home and affordable."
The VHS will display three exhibitions about the Vietnam era.
Admission will be free from June 6 through Aug. 30.
Street address
428 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220
Upcoming Vietnam-Era exhibitions
Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era
June 6–August 30, 2009
This award-winning exhibition, organized by the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, explores the issues, actions, reactions, and expressions of life and culture of African Americans as they were affected by the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Over 160 artifacts, photographs, reprographics, audio recordings, songs, oral histories, and an original documentary show how events in the 1960s helped frame African American political and social perspectives that extended beyond civil rights. The roles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Colin Powell, Jimi Hendrix, and many more are explored, as well as the 9,000 women who served as nurses and in clerical and support positions during the war. At the end of the exhibition, letters to the families of MIAs provide a lens for understanding postwar reflections.
Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam
June 6–August 30, 2009
Organized by the Vietnam Graffiti Project, this exhibition features a cache of Vietnam War soldier art of striking importance and poignancy. Soldiers and Marines on the ship USNS General Nelson M. Walker, bound for Vietnam in 1967, inscribed graffiti phrases and images on the bottom side of canvas bunks in the troop compartments. Men wrote their name and hometown, the date they expected to leave the service, and kept day-by-day calendars to mark the voyage progress. Original graffiti-covered canvases, discovered in the process of scrapping the vessel in 2005, display messages of patriotism, politics, humor, anxiety, and love.
Bring Paul Home: Phyllis Galanti and Vietnam War POWs
June 6–August 30, 2009
This exhibition is based on the collection given to the Virginia Historical Society by Richmond resident Phyllis Galanti. Her husband, Paul, was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy when his plane was shot down over Vietnam on June 17, 1966. Mr. Galanti was a Prisoner of War (POW) until February 12, 1973. Archival and museum objects from the donated collection show Mrs. Galanti's efforts, and those of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, to publicize the plight of their loved ones and to secure their release.
There is also a standing exhibit: The Virginia Manufactory of Arms Collection
From 1802 to 1821, the state of Virginia did not rely on the federal government to arm its militia but manufactured its own weapons. This new exhibition presents a comprehensive collection of the products of the Virginia Manufactory of Arms, a state-of-the-art water-powered facility that stood in Richmond. On display are flintlock muskets, rifles, pistols, and swords, including examples of the weapons that were used by the militia defending Virginia during the British campaigns on Chesapeake Bay in 1813–14. This collection is important not only as a chapter in the history of armament, but also as evidence of an episode in the evolution of state and national interests in the early American republic.
http://www.vahistorical.org/index.htm
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