{"id":5476,"date":"2022-09-01T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2022-09-01T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:18:48","slug":"fall-2022-mini-course-where-we-live-the-german-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/fall-2022-mini-course-where-we-live-the-german-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2022 Mini-Course — Where We Live: The German Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Press release<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What:\u00a0 Lovettsville Historical Society Fall 2022 Mini-Course\u2014 Where We Live:\u00a0 The German Settlement<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When:\u00a0\u00a0 Monday nights October 3, 10, 17, and 24 from 6:30-9:00 p.m..<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Where:\u00a0 Meeting at the Lovettsville Museum, 4 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Lovettsville VA 20180<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Lovettsville Historical Society and Museum will be offering a fall mini-course in the field this autumn, offered on Monday nights October 3, 10, 17, and 24.\u00a0\u00a0 Entitled Where We Live:\u00a0 The German Settlement\u00b8 <\/em>the four-session course will use the Lovettsville Museum, the Town of Lovettsville, and the surrounding German Settlement of Northern Loudoun to better familiarize local residents with the history, artifacts, stories, and key historic sites of their neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conceived and co-taught by Lovettsville Historical Society Board members Rich Gillespie and Mike Zapf,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each session of the class will be partly in the museum, partly on the road in the Lovettsville area.  \u201cOur community has many long-time families, some dating back to the mid-18th<\/sup> century,\u201d says Rich Gillespie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmong long-time residents, there is a fundamental understanding of place, of landmarks, of the basic arc of our local history, of its stories.\u00a0 Remember the airline crash outside Lovettsville?\u00a0 Those Union Civil War encampments around town?\u00a0 The Revolutionary War veterans from the German settlement?\u00a0 That Confederate guerilla Mobberly who pistol-whipped the Virts girl?\u00a0\u00a0 The whiskey distillery over to Taylorstown by the bend in the creek?\u00a0 When they come into the museum on Saturday afternoons, those stories are known and much on display has a basic familiarity.\u00a0 But Loudoun has long been growing and changing, Lovettsville and the German Settlement with it.\u00a0 Our population today are mostly \u201cnew people\u201d\u2014people helping our community keep vibrant with new ideas and new enthusiasm, but who haven\u2019t been given the opportunity to know that history.\u00a0 We want to widen the group who \u2018gets\u2019 the German Settlement\u2019s Heritage and appreciates the insider stories, places, and history that\u2019s here.\u00a0 Adding to our monthly lecture series on topics of local historical interest, we thought a course in the field might be an exciting and fun way to go to reach folks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four sessions are not sold individually, but rather as a package, because the sessions build on each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope people who sign up for the class can come to the majority of sessions, though we understand that most will miss a class or two,\u201d said Gillespie.  \u201cWe\u2019d like to build a community of fellow learners who think a fall night would be a great time to go exploring and learning.\u201d   The class will use the Lovettsville Museum at 4 East Pennsylvania Avenue in Lovettsville as a base of operations, then use local cemeteries, in-town structures and landmarks, and key satellite villages such as Tankerville, Taylorstown, George\u2019s Mill, and Morrisonville to make sense of our local area.  Each session will be a mix of teaching and exploring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sign up for the class, go online to www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.com<\/a> where you can learn more. The cost of the class is $50.00 and will be used to help with the Lovettsville Museum\u2019s upcoming expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click Here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

or Visit the new Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum Square Store<\/a> to reserve your spot and view other items for sale!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further information, contact:
Edward Spannaus 540-822-9194, or 703-727-9758<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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