{"id":61,"date":"2016-10-20T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T03:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:39:14","slug":"2016-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/events-lectures\/2016-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2016&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>EVENTS &amp;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>LECTURES AT THE LOVETTSVILLE HISTORIC SOCIETY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 14, 2016:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>\u201c1866:&nbsp;Change, Resistance, and Uncertainty in the Northern Virginia Piedmont.\u201d<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>Richard T. Gillespie, then-Executive Director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, again kicked off our annual lecture series with a presentation on Civil War-related events in this area 150 years prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1866: Change, Resistance, and Uncertainty in the Northern Virginia Piedmont (2016)\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1bY98wvuh9E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 13, 2016:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201c<em>Look Out Below!&nbsp;The Surprising Geology of Brunswick and Lovettsville.\u201d<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>Don Peterson, local naturalist and writer, discussed the geology of the Brunswick and Lovettsville area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 10, 2016:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><i>\u201cGeorge Washington DID NOT Build the C &amp; O Canal:&nbsp;The Story of Potomac River Navigation and the Rise and Demise of the C&amp;O Canal.\u201d<\/i><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong>John Frye, Lovettsville native, and Chief Historian and Curator at the Western Maryland Room of the Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown, discussed the C&amp;O Canal and transportation along the Potomac River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 15:, 2016:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><em>&#8220;St. James:&nbsp;Lovettsville&#8217;s Oldest Church.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/em>The<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>283-year history of Lovettsville&#8217;s German Reformed Church, now St. James United Church of Christ, was presented by former pastor and church historian Rev.&nbsp;Roland England, and by former and present members of St. James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 12, 2016:&nbsp; \u201c<\/strong><em>The History of Freedom Lodge,<\/em><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>Lovettsville&#8217;s Own Masonic Lodge<\/em>,\u201d by Harris McGarrah, covering the early history of Freedom Lodge 199.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 10, 2016:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201c<\/strong><em>The Forgotten History of Petersville, Maryland.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Jody Brumage, South Mountain Heritage Society, presented the history of this fascinating community, once far more important than Berlin\/Brunswick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Forgotten Story of Petersville, Maryland (2016)\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vCHNDzPYw0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aug.&nbsp;14, 2016:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;&#8220;Prelude to Revolution:&nbsp;the French-Indian War on the Maryland and Virginia Frontier,&#8221;<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>by journalist and author Tim Rowland, who discussed how the French-Indian War made the American Revolution necessary and inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prelude to the Revolution: The French &amp; Indian War On the Maryland and Virginia Frontier (2016)\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sF10UPpUk5E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept.&nbsp;18, 2016:&nbsp; \u201c<\/strong><em>First Entrepreneur:&nbsp;How George Washington Built His &#8211; And the Nation&#8217;s &#8211; Prosperity,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>by Edward G. Lengel, Professor of History at the University of Virginia and editor of The Papers of George Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct.&nbsp;9, 2016:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><em>&#8220;The One That Got Away &#8211; How Virginia Lost Mr. Jefferson&#8217;s County.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp; The formation of the State of West Virginia, discussed by Doug Perks, Historian of the Jefferson County Museum in Charles Town, WV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov.&nbsp;13, 2016:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><em>\u201cThe 1940 Lovettsville Airliner Disaster\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>by John Flannery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The 1940 Lovettsville Plane Crash, by John P. 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