2012 <\/b>EVENTS & <\/b>LECTURES AT THE LOVETTSVILLE HISTORIC SOCIETY<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
February 12, 2012:<\/b> \u201cThe Potomac Frontier \u2013 Loudoun in 1862,\u201d<\/i> by Richard Gillespie, Director of Education for the Mosby Heritage Area Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 11, 2012:<\/b> \u201cNo More In Silence: My Journey of Discovery With the Historic Stoutsenberger Farmstead,\u201d<\/i> by Eirik Harteis of the Eco-Village Stoutsenberger homestead project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
April 15, 2012:<\/b> \u201cBefore There Was Lovettsville: The German Settlement in the 18th Century,\u201d<\/i> by local author and cartographer, Eugene Scheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May 13, 2012:<\/b> \u201cBefore There Was Brunswick: Berlin \u2013 Maryland\u2019s First Planned City,\u201d<\/i> by Jacqueline Ebersole and Dave McIntosh of the Brunswick Railroad Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
June 10, 2012:<\/b> \u201cLovettsville Cemeteries and Historic Records,\u201d<\/i> by author and genealogist Marty Hiatt, preceded by LHS Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
June 23, 2012:<\/b> Loudoun Rangers Descendants Reunion held in Waterford and Lovettsville, to honor the 150th Anniversary of the Independent Loudoun Rangers’ formation in June 1862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
July 8, 2012:<\/b> “A Reminiscence of Old Lovettsville”<\/i> by Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Growing Up<\/i>, Russell Baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
August 12, 2012:<\/b> “September Suspense: Lincoln’s Union in Peril”<\/i> by Dennis Frye, chief historian at Harpers Ferry National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
September 9, 2012:<\/b> “Wandering Through Time: A Historic Walking Tour of Painter’s Corner and the Short Hill,\u201d <\/i>presented by Jim Schatz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
October 14, 2012: <\/b> “The Underground Railroad in Loudoun County” <\/i>by Bronwen Souders, founding member of Black History Committee of the Friends of Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
November 11, 2012:<\/b> \u201c’Gone to the Country Very Tired’: Abraham Lincoln, the Soldiers Home, and the Cradle of the Emancipation Proclamation,\u201d <\/i>by Scott Ackerman, President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, Washington DC. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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