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Great Lives Lecture: Jimmy Carter
Great Lives Lecture: Jimmy Carter
Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure—ridiculed and later revered—with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Mother Teresa
Great Lives Lecture: Mother Teresa
On November 17, 2021, in 213-0 vote, the U.S. Catholic bishops assigned September 5 as the feast date to St. Teresa of Kolkata, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Since 1972, the Missionaries of Charity have served in the United States, and Mother Teresa has long been revered in a significant number of U.S. […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Pioneer Female Aviators
Great Lives Lecture: Pioneer Female Aviators
Everyone knows the name Amelia Earhart. But the other four women in O’Brien’s story were, in some cases, better pilots and their stories are no less compelling. O’Brien recounts for us the amazing exploits of Ruth Elder, the first American woman try to fly across the Atlantic Ocean after Lindbergh’s feat in 1927; Ruth Nichols, […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Homer
Great Lives Lecture: Homer
Mark Twain had a school-boy declare: ‘Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name’ – which suggests that the myth of the author endures, despite scholarly attempts to debunk it. The earliest sources that mention Homer by name date to the sixth century BCE: from them we can establish that […]
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Girl Scouts Event
Girl Scouts Event
ALL girls are invited to join us for an event full of cookies, crafts, campfires and new friends. We will be hosting this fun-filled event at on Saturday, February 12th from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Old Mill Park: Shelter 2 2201 Caroline St. Fredericksburg, VA 22401
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Financial Peace University
Financial Peace University
When debt isn’t holding you back, nothing can stop you from living the life of your dreams. You can get there; you just need a plan that works. Financial Peace University (FPU) is that plan. This 9-session course will meet on Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 PM beginning February 15 at Ebenezer Church in Stafford. It teaches […]
Great Lives Lecture: Emmett Till
Great Lives Lecture: Emmett Till
Sixty-six years after his lynching, the story of Emmett Till is more prominent than ever. Beginning with the murder in 1955, Dave Tell will chart the long after-life of Emmett Till. Tell will explain how and why Till’s story was buried for 49 years before roaring back to life in the twenty-first century. Tell will […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Ida B. Wells
Great Lives Lecture: Ida B. Wells
Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to enslaved parents during the tumult of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) joined a generation of young Black men and women who aspired to professional careers and successful lives as full citizens in the decades after Reconstruction. Following her parents’ tragic deaths during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Indira Gandhi
Great Lives Lecture: Indira Gandhi
One of first female Prime Ministers in the world and the first and only in India, Indira Gandhi was born in 1917 to a prominent political family at the height of India’s nationalist movement for freedom from British colonial rule. She spent a lonely childhood as her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, noted nationalist leader and later, […]
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Gwyneth’s Gift’s Hands-Only CPR & AED Class
Gwyneth’s Gift’s Hands-Only CPR & AED Class
You are cordially invited to Gwyneth's Gift's CPR and AED Training Class at the Fredericksburg Area Museum. This course is free to attend, simply reserve your ticket above at your preferred time slot. Cardiac arrest claims more lives than breast cancer, prostate cancer, influenza, auto accidents, firearms and house fires combined. Gwyneth's Gift Foundation works […]
Gwyneth’s Gift’s Hands-Only AED & CPR Class
Gwyneth’s Gift’s Hands-Only AED & CPR Class
You are cordially invited to Gwyneth's Gift's CPR and AED Training Class at the Fredericksburg Area Museum. This course is free to attend, simply reserve your ticket above at your preferred time slot. Cardiac arrest claims more lives than breast cancer, prostate cancer, influenza, auto accidents, firearms and house fires combined. Gwyneth's Gift Foundation works […]
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Great Lives Lecture: America’s Pirates
Great Lives Lecture: America’s Pirates
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age”—spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s—when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. In his slide show and presentation, Eric […]
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RAC Star Party
RAC Star Party
The Rappahannock Astronomy Club presents their monthly evening of deep space viewing. Check out galaxies, stars, planets, and other celestial phenomena. Bring you own telescope or look through a club member's. These events begin 30 minutes before sunset. Call the park at (540)663-3861 to make sure the program is still being offered if the weather forecast […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Sandra Day O’Connor
Great Lives Lecture: Sandra Day O’Connor
Sandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her law school class in 1952, no firm would even interview her. […]
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Great Lives Lecture: Dolly Parton
Great Lives Lecture: Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is having a moment in popular culture, from lifetime achievement awards to adulation from much younger generations. Reduced to jokes about her figure over decades of her impressive career, Parton is finally being recognized as a creative genius and a trailblazer for her gender. What does her emergence as a uniquely unifying figure--a […]