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Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, VA)
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Jones Memorial Library specializes in history and genealogy.
A Per Se Violation? The History of Centra Health
This is a recording of a lecture at Jones Memorial Library on October 09, 2024 by George Dawson about the history of Centra Health in Lynchburg, Virginia. This lecture is part of the Jones Memorial Library's John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture series.
Learn about the forces, events and people that caused Centra Health to be created by the merger of Lynchburg General Hospital and Virginia Baptist Hospital on January 1, 1987.
Competing national policies were in play in the decades preceding the merger - especially a tension between anti-trust law and federal health planning acts. Drawing on information gleaned from the minute books of the two hospitals and other sources including personal recol...
Learn about the forces, events and people that caused Centra Health to be created by the merger of Lynchburg General Hospital and Virginia Baptist Hospital on January 1, 1987.
Competing national policies were in play in the decades preceding the merger - especially a tension between anti-trust law and federal health planning acts. Drawing on information gleaned from the minute books of the two hospitals and other sources including personal recol...
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Scott Insurance, Then & Now
Просмотров 11День назад
Video recording of a lecture on the history of the Scott Insurance company with Walker Sydnor and David Barney. The lecture was held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia on September 11, 2024 as part of the John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture series. Rising from the ashes of the Civil War came a firm that would eventually be known as Scott Insurance. With many twists and turns and dif...
Uncovering Lynchburg's Slave Trade
Просмотров 1123 месяца назад
Video recording of a panel lecture at Jones Memorial Library as part of the John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture Series . This lecture was presented at JML on Wednesday, May 08, 2024.
Ancestral Callings: The Legacy of Thomas Jefferson Anderson (1853-1921) with T.J. Anderson, III
Просмотров 1076 месяцев назад
Video recording of a presentation as part of the Jones Memorial Library's John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture Series. This lecture was held at the library on March 13, 2024. Using the methodologies of music, imagination, and historical documentation, poet and author T.J. Anderson, III explores the origins and legacy of his Great Grandfather Thomas Jefferson Anderson. Anderson was one of the first...
Repairing Her Faults: A History of the Virginia Constitution with John Cook
Просмотров 1056 месяцев назад
Video recording of a lecture in the John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture Series at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. This lecture was delivered by John Cook at the library on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Learn about all six of Virginia's constitutions, with an emphasis on the 1776 constitution and its impacts on other constitutions and the 1971 constitution that exists today.
Boonsboro Country Club Centennial
Просмотров 19110 месяцев назад
Lecture on the Boonsboro County Club Centennial by Alex Owen, Daniel Bradway, & Richard Bendall at Jones Memorial Library on 25 October 2023. This lecture is part of the John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture Series. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Boonsboro County Club. Learn about the club's history and formation of the original golf course, the club's contribution to Virginia golf, and its man...
Black American Life at Patrick Henry's Red Hill Plantation
Просмотров 14510 месяцев назад
This lecture by Peighton Young at Jones Memorial Library on 15 November 2023 is part of the John D. Owen, Jr. History Lecture Series. Amidst the farmlands in the town of Brookneal sits Patrick Henry’s Red Hill plantation, the last home and burial place of the famed ‘Voice of the American Revolution.’ Though Henry’s political and cultural legacy as a Founding Father often dominates public conver...
An Evening with Travis McDonald at Jones Memorial Library
Просмотров 2711 месяцев назад
Video recording of a lecture by architectural historian Travis McDonald at Jones Memorial Library on 06 December 2023. McDonald shares the story of the restoration of Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest.
Reckoning with Remembrance and The Pierce Street Gateway
Просмотров 86Год назад
Recording of a lecture delivered by Ghislaine Lewis, Executive Director of The Pierce Street Gateway at Jones Memorial Library on 20 September 2023.
Two Hundred Years: the History of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Lynchburg, Virginia (Sue Ellen Inman)
Просмотров 124Год назад
Sue Ellen Inman shares an overview of the history of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. This lecture was presented at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg on 17 May 2023.
"The Black Hospital That Wasn't" with Jim Wright, M.D.
Просмотров 70Год назад
Lecture at Jones Memorial Library on 18 May 2022. Jim Wright shares the story behind the late 1930s effort to build a hospital for African Americans in Lynchburg - where the idea originated and why it ultimately failed. In 1935, the Rev. Amos Carnegie launched a national effort to build African American hospitals in 90 cities. Lynchburg's was to be the first. This is the story of that effort an...
The Long Life and Lingering Afterlife of American Slavery with John d'Entremont
Просмотров 163Год назад
Lecture at Jones Memorial Library on 19 April 2023 Professor d'Entremont's lecture explores the origin of slavery in North America, its growing economic centrality, its impact on American politics and culture, and the ways it differed from forms of unfree labor elsewhere. It chronicles slavery's impact on human beings as well as the long history of resistance by the enslaved and their allies, a...
"Lynchburg's Civil War Monuments: Updated Reflections on Should They Stay or Should They Go"
Просмотров 104Год назад
Lecture with Kimball Payne at Jones Memorial Library on 15 March 2023 The Fall/Winter 2018 edition of Lynch's Ferry magazine included an article by the speaker, "Should They Stay or Should They Go? Debating the Future of Lynchburg's Confederate Monuments." Although it was a hot national issue at that time, localities in the Commonwealth had little authority to address community concerns regardi...
The Holocaust Education Foundation of Central Virginia presents a "Memory Wars" discussion
Просмотров 50Год назад
Panel discussion with Memory Wars hosts Mallory Noe-Payne, Michael Paul Williams, and Bob Gillette at Jones Memorial Library on Thursday, March 31, 2023. Join us as we host acclaimed NPR Richmond reporter Mallory Noe-Payne and Richmond Times Dispatch journalist Michael Paul Williams to discuss their timely NPR podcast "Memory Wars," which investigates how Germans confronted the history of Nazis...
An Inside Look at the Redevelopment of the Historic Allied Arts and Carter Glass Buildings
Просмотров 96Год назад
"An Inside Look at the Redevelopment of the Historic Allied Arts and Carter Glass Buildings" with Blair Godsey was held at Jones Memorial Library on February 15, 2023. Explore the redevelopment of the Allied Arts and Carter Glass buildings, two of downtown Lynchburg's most notable historic landmarks. The developer will provide an overview of the challenges each project presented with before and...
Redlining in Lynchburg: History and Lingering Impacts with John D Abell at Jones Memorial Library
Просмотров 722 года назад
Redlining in Lynchburg: History and Lingering Impacts with John D Abell at Jones Memorial Library