2011 EVENTS & LECTURES AT THE LOVETTSVILLE HISTORIC SOCIETY
March 13, 2011: “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Lovettsville’s Cemeteries,” a roundtable discussion with DAR genealogists Twyla Jackino, Betsy Ramsey, Lynda Carter, and others.
March 16, 2011: LHSField trip to Burkittsville and South Mountain Heritage Society.
April 10, 2011: “That Spring the War Came: 1861 in the Mosby Heritage Area,” by Richard Gillespie, Director of Education for the Mosby Heritage Area Association.
May 8, 2011: “The Paxton Family and the Carlheim Mansion,” by Lori Kimball and H. Vernon Davis of the Loudoun Preservation Society.
June 12, 2011: “Hobos Under the Bridge: The Origins of Brunswick, Md.” by Brunswick businessman and historian Bruce Funk, preceded by LHS Annual Meeting.
July 10, 2011: “A Little Short of Boats: the Fights at Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry, October 21-22, 1861,” by Civil War author Jim Morgan.
August 14, 2011: “The Life and Times of Lt. Luther Slater: From Lovettsville to Capitol Hill,” by Edward Spannaus, LHS.
September 11, 2011: “The German Settlement in the Revolutionary War” by the LHS Revolutionary War task force and Don Cooper of the Loudoun County Patriot Project.
October 9, 2011: “The Way It Was: Reminiscence of Old Lovettsville,” by long-time Lovettsville resident Glenn Grove.
November 11, 2011: Veterans Day event honoring Sgt. Rob Jones.
November 13, 2011: “Furniture-Making in Lovettsville and Waterford ,” By Dr. Fred C. Johnson, author of Nineteenth Century Loudoun County, Virginia Chair Manufacturing.
December 11, 2011: “150 Years Ago: Blockade and Occupation in North Loudoun,” by Taylor Chamberlin and John Souders, authors of Between Reb and Yank.