March 2, 2023 A Way to Keep from Losing Our History Joanna Green, Archeologist – Cemetery Preservation for the Community Services Division of Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources will discuss the debut of the DHR online tool to record Virginia cemeteries and will give a presentation on Virginia Burial Law. Robin Patton and Gloria Gilmore will talk about the “cemetery days” that One Shared Story has organized working through African-

February 2, 2023 Scot French, a longtime member of the UVA-Charlottesville research community, will discuss his collaboration with Lenora McQueen on their Morven Summer Institute class, ARH 4500/AAS 4559 Morven’s Enslaved and Descendant Communities. The place-based course, to be offered again this summer, includes guided student research, field trips, and collaboration on a final digital project. French is a digital public historian specializing in the study of cultural landscapes associated

January 5, 2023 For our first meeting of 2023, we will hear from three of our members:  Erik Irtenkauf about the updated CVHR website, Jane Smith about her Daily Progress article and obituary website, Edwina St. Rose about the Daughters of Zion website.

December 1, 2022 – IN PERSON @ the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Worthy Martin will discuss IATH and its collaborations in local history. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) was founded in 1992 with the primary mission of transforming faculty scholarship through collaborations to make effective use of computationally mediated methods. Most often, this mission is accomplished through the IATH Fellows Program in which faculty

November 3, 2022 Lucille Stout Smith will give an Overview and Pictorial History of the Covesville Historic District The Covesville Historic District is a village that developed in response to a religious settlement, transportation routes, and a successful apple-growing climate. It became a village in 1828 and was initially settled in the 1740’s by Scotch-Irish and German immigrants from the Shenandoah Valley. In 2005, the community was listed on the

October 6, 2022 Our October topic was rescheduled to December. Instead a group discussion was held where members shared updates on their various research projects. Worthy Martin will discuss IATH and its collaborations in local history. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) was founded in 1992 with the primary mission of transforming faculty scholarship through collaborations to make effective use of computationally mediated methods. Most often, this

September 1, 2022 Bob Vernon will present the story of Phoebe, an Indian, and her struggle to regain her freedom In 1752 12-year old Phoebe, an Indian, was sold as a slave in Albemarle County. She petitioned for her freedom and in 1760 an Albemarle jury restored her liberty. However, probably through appeals, she and her children remained enslaved and she petitioned again in 1780 and 1783. The presentation will

July 7, 2022 Dr. Bill Hardin will discuss Robert Pleasants of Curles (Henrico County) who was a Virginia abolitionist during the Revolutionary period. Pleasants was the plaintiff in the case of Pleasants v. Pleasants (1799), a decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia that recognized a legal right to freedom for hundreds of enslaved persons retained in bondage by members of the Pleasants family. Robert Pleasants also founded a short-lived abolition society

June 2, 2022 Lydia Neuroth serves as the project manager for Virginia Untold at the Library of Virginia. She will provide an overview of the two-year NHPRC grant from the National Archives that the Library received in February 2020 which currently funds her position and the processing of free Black registers from 19 Virginia localities and loose records from the City of Richmond, 1794-1865. She will describe recent finds documenting

May 5th, 2022 Kajsa Foskey will discuss heirs’ property, a form of property ownership that is prevalent in African American communities across the rural south. The Department of Agriculture has identified heirs’ property as the leading form of involuntary Black land loss amongst African American landowners. She will use her own family history in Louisa County, Virginia to illustrate the many challenges that arise from this form of ownership and