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On Saturday, August 7th award-winning actress Barbara Bates Smith will perform her show B. Smith Does Lee Smith, featuring several characters by the Virginia native and Hollins University graduate. B. Smith Does Lee Smith highlights three stories from Lee Smith’s newest book, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, with music, anecdotes, and vignettes from novels [...]

Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest is currently hosting the 22nd Annual Summer Field School in Historical Archaeology. Eleven students are participating in 2010 and have come from all over the country, representing states including Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, New York, Michigan, and Texas.  Visitors can witness the field school participants and staff archaeologists conduct site [...]

Come join the fun. Lynchburg Star contest: 5:30-6pm Out of Spite: 6pm-9pm

The heat of summer is here, and Lime Kiln is the place for theatre in Western Virginia. On July 1st -3rd and 8th-11th creators Don Baker and Robin and Linda Williams star in Stonewall Country. Written in 1984, Stonewall Country ran for 20 years. In 2009 Lime Kiln brought it back with Baker, the Williamses [...]

Come to Poplar Forest with family and friends to experience Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest come alive with patriotism! Don’t miss Poplar Forest’s signature July 4th event: a fife and drum parade, followed by the stirring reading of the Declaration of Independence from Jefferson’s back portico. Musical performances, dancing, historical entertainment, games and living history demonstrations [...]