Upcoming Events
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Fauquier County Cultural Heritage Festival
April 27th, 2025
12pm-4pm
The WARF
800 Waterloo Rd
Warrenton, VA
"Raising the Shade," Franklin County, 1850-1910, Community Forum
May 31st, 2025
W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Conference Center
775 Hermitage Rd
Wirtz, VA
For more information contact info@raisingtheshade.org or visit www.raisingtheshade.org and www.moremountainstories.org.
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Freedom of Assembly and Petition - 1st Amendment Community Workshop #3
Join the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier, in partnership with the ACHS, for an enlightening conversation on the First Amendment rights to assembly and petition. The workshop will explore historical and contemporary examples of peaceful assembly and petitioning, as well as the legal protections and the challenges to the First Amendment faced today.
Rev. D. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Keynote Speaker: Reverend Wallis C. Baxter III, PhD,
Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in District Heights, Maryland.
Theme: “How Relevant is the Civil Rights Movement in the Twenty-First Century?”
Sixty Slaves for Sale: Reckoning with Enslavement in the Shenandoah Valley Conference
A one-day conference to bring attention to the history of enslavement in the Shenandoah Valley.
Read more here and register for the event today!
