A sure sign that a new year approaches. UMW announces the lineup for the Great Lives lecture series that looks at significant biographies.

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A sure sign that a new year approaches. UMW announces the lineup for the Great Lives lecture series that looks at significant biographies.
AUDIO: The holidays at the George Washington Foundation and Ferry Farm and Kenmore. Alma Withers, Dave Muraca and Meghan Budinger. Previews of gingerbread houses, wee Christmas and Twelfth Night.
VIDEO: Fredericksburg City Council heard the plans on moving the slave auction block to the Fredericksburg area museum. It’s expected to take place before the end of the year.
VIDEO: Fredericksburg City Council debated for a final time moving the slave auction block from the corner of William and Charles street to the Fredericksburg Area Museum.
AUDIO: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy talks about desegregation in the area. Discussion on the 1950 protest and sit-ins downtown.
PHOTOS: Every October, pink ribbons are placed on the fence at the Mary Washington House. George Washington’s mother died in Fredericksburg of breast cancer. Today, it’s a chance to remember and honor family and friends impacted.
The area was the scene of Civil War battles.
PHOTOS: Fall descends on the Bloody Angle. Spotsylvania Battlefield.
VIDEO: There’s now a historical marker on Courthouse Road in front of the John J. Wright Educational and Cultural Center. The school has played an important role in African American education in the Spotsylvania.
VIDEO: A state historical marker was dedicated at the John J. Wright School that highlights the 20th century history of secondary public school education for African American students in Spotsylvania.
Recovery part of an international effort to recover artwork plundered by the Nazis.
AUDIO: There’s a Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference Conference Friday at UMW and ArchaeoFest Saturday at George Washington’s Ferry Farm in Stafford.
VIDEO: The final Fredericksburg Welsh Festival at the James Monroe Museum is this Saturday
State approves twelve new historical highway makers including one in Stafford for artist Palmer Haydon from Widewater
The Washington Monument reopens today. What you should know before going for a visit…
VIDEO: Stafford Supervisors with a proclamation recognizing Constitution Week
The trip will trace the Freedom Ride route thru the south
VIDEO: The Mary Washington House observed the death 230 years ago on August 25th of Mary Washington with a wreath laying at her monument on Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg.
VIDEO: Bells tolled in Fredericksburg on August 25 to mark the 1619 landing of the first Africans in English North America. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy led a program reflecting on the anniversary and its meaning.
VIDEO: Church bells ring for four minutes Sunday afternoon nationally and in downtown Fredericksburg. Here’s the view from Chatham