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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
"BOOKS ON BROAD" FEATURING BILL LOHMANN AND BOB BROWN
Time: 5:30–7:30 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Bill Lohmann and photographer Bob Brown have traveled around Virginia for many years. Back Roads: People, Places and Pie from Around Virginia features a collection of Brown's photographs from the road with insights from Lohmann that tell the stories behind the pictures. Reception (wine and cheese) 5:30–6:30 PM, book talk 6:00–7:00 PM, and book signing 7:00–7:30 PM. |
Monday, May 19, 2014
Mrs. Poe
Time: Noon–1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms, Free
Lynn Cullen will discuss and sign her new novel, Mrs. Poe, inspired by literature's most haunting love triangle: Edgar Allan Poe, his tubercular young wife, and a lady poet. Closely based on Poe's life and writings, and rich with authentic historical detail, Mrs. Poe is a novel of romantic obsession, set in the fascinating world of New York's literati scene of the 1840s. |
Saturday, May 24, 2014—Monday, May 26, 2014
Closed
The Library of Virginia will be closed for the Memorial Day weekend. |
Through Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Central Virginia Botanical Artists Exhibition
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Place: Lobby under the stairs, Free
To complement the Library's exhibition Flora of Virginia, the Central Virginia Botanical Artists will mount an exhibition of works by members of the CVBA. |
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Poetic Principals: Writers from VCU
Place: Conference Rooms, Free
Three up-and-coming writers with connections to Virginia Commonwealth University will offer readings of their recent work: Paula Champa, who just published her first novel, The Afterlife of Emerson Tang; Emilia Phillips, who just published her first collection of poems, Signaletics; and Joshua Poteat, author of Ornithologies and Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World.
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Friday, May 30, 2014—Saturday, May 31, 2014
THIRD ANNUAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Don't miss the commonwealth's premier rare-book event featuring more than 40 of the region's finest dealers in mass-market titles, rare books, manuscripts, maps, and ephemera.
The Library of Virginia hosts the Antiquarian Book Fair in conjunction with the Virginia Antiquarian Booksellers' Association and with the support of the Southeast Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
Book Fair Schedule
Friday, May 30
Hours: Noon–8 PM
Wine-and-cheese reception: 5:30–7:30 PM
Saturday, May 31
Hours: 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
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Through Saturday, September 13, 2014
Flora of Virginia
Place: Lobby and Exhibition Hall
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Discover the power of the flower. Delve into Virginia's natural environment through Flora of Virginia, an exhibition featuring hundreds of colorful illustrations from the Library of Virginia's collections. Learn fun facts about Virginia's native plants. Examine the history of botanical description and illustration. Explore the personalities behind the folks who collected and described these plants. Try your hand at sketching a specimen at the drawing station.
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Monday, June 2–Saturday, August 23, 2014
Mapping RVA: Where You Live Makes All the Difference
Place: Voorhees Map Reading Room, Second Floor
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) presents Mapping RVA: Where You Live Makes All the Difference, a multimedia exhibition of nine maps created using geographic information systems to display a unique history of the Richmond metro area. In this iteration of the traveling exhibit, maps from the Library of Virginia's holdings will be presented alongside the maps created by HOME's director of research, Brian Koziol. The current circumstances of Richmond's neighborhoods have roots in state and federal policies that have had lasting effects on concentrations of poverty and growth, lending patterns, homeownership, and educational outcomes for children.
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Monday, June 16–Saturday, July 19, 2014
Rewarding Virginia's Warriors: Commemorating 70 Years of the GI Bill
Place: Reading Rooms, Second Floor
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
The GI Bill turns 70 this year. Prior to this groundbreaking legislation being signed into law in June 1944 by President Franklin Roosevelt, postwar benefits for veterans were skimpy and spotty at best. This display of pre-World War II portions of the Library's military collection highlights Revolutionary War land bounties, petitions for pensions, and post-Civil War applications for prosthetics. Artifacts from Hanger, Inc, a prosthetic company founded by Virginian James Hanger after the Civil War will also be on display. |