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Lights, Camera, Action! @ your library ®
Lights! Camera! Action! The Color of Money @ your library ®
Nationally Acclaimed Exhibit Comes to Petersburg!
Artist: John W. Jones
Exhibit: Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Tour Information: The Siege Museum, May 13 - July 31, 2005
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, May 25 at 7 pm
Overview: Artist combines art and social history by transforming original engravings
depicting slavery into detailed and enlarged color paintings.
Library Display
Promotional materials are available in the library.
Posters depicting the art exhibit are on display in the stacks.
Civil War Conference Held at Virginia State University
Event: Conference on African Americans and the Civil War
Dates: May 26 - 28, 2005
Connection to Exhibit: Conference attendees are encouraged to visit The Siege Museum to see
Confederate Currency: The Color of Money.
Conference Sponsors: Petersburg National Battlefield, Pamplin Historical Park, City of Petersburg,
Virginia State University and Richard Bland College
Conference Liaison from RBC: Librarian Deborah Vroman represented RBC in Steering Committee
meetings and throughout the actual conference.
Librarian works with National Parks Services staff ...
Clockwise from top left: Ann Blumenschine, Emmanuel Dabney (RBC student & NPS staff member),
Deborah Vroman, Robin Snyder and Tara Petit.
Lucious Edwards, VSU Archivist and CAACW Steering Committe member
(Special note: Mr. Edwards is married to Dottie Edwards,
RBC Director of Information Technology Services)
Deborah Vroman takes a break from the registration desk
to visit the promotional display for Pamplin Historical Park.
World War II veteran Porcher L. Taylor, a very close friend of Dr. McNeer's,
attends the conference.
Links
Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Confederate Currency: The Color of Money — Images from Virginia Currency
Conference on African Americans in the Civil War
Questions,
comments or concerns?
Please send an email to library@rbc.edu.
Page updated: May 31, 2005
