May 11 Saturday
Don't throw that broken thing away--Rethink, Reuse, Repair Fair is here to teach you how to give new life to old stuff!
Connect with people and businesses who specialize in repairing and reusing objects. Extending the lifespans of our possessions reduces waste as well as environmental impacts.
Vendors will be able to help visitors repair their things on site or provide the contacts and resources for future repair services. There will also be brief workshops and demonstrations for people to learn something about how to repair things on their own.
The Roanoke Valley abounds in rich, natural settings. Fortunately, the area hosts a robust system of greenways and trails waiting to be explored. Russ Craighead walks a section nearly every day, camera in hand.
On Saturday, May 11 at 11 am, Russ will give a talk about the greenways and trails in or near Salem using his extensive collection of photographs to illustrate highlights along the way: waterways, terrain features, plants, animals, and birds, as well as remnants of historic structures located on or near the trails. The talk will be held at the Salem Museum as part of the museum’s Speaker Series.
Russ will share a map of the greenways and trails in the Roanoke Valley to provide an overview of the pathways that are currently available, including newly opened sections. He will also describe the sections that are under construction or still in the planning stages.
Russ Craighead is a Salem native and an avid hiker. He serves as one of Salem’s citizen representatives to the Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission. The Commission includes representatives from Salem and Roanoke City, the Town of Vinton, and Botetourt and Roanoke Counties. The system provides significant quality of life benefits for recreation, health, the economy, and nature and history education.
May 17 Friday
The second annual WATERWORKS new works festival runs May 17 through June 2 at Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville. The three-week festival features 19 new theatrical works from local and global playwrights, 16 directors, and over 50 performers. Other featured works include Locally Sourced, the Charlottesville Playwrights Collective, and Community Deep Dive educational workshops. Start and end times vary; visit livearts.org for tickets and information.
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May 30 Thursday
Most students of the Civil War believe the story of Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign is complete, and that new studies must rely on interpretations long since accepted and understood. But what if this is not the case? What if the histories previously written about the first major Confederate operation north of the Potomac River missed key sources, proceeded from mistaken readings of the evidence, or were influenced by Lost Cause ideology? Dr. Alexander Rossino demonstrates that these types of distortions continue to shape modern understanding of the campaign and offers suggestions for how to correct them, developing in the process a new understanding of what General Lee hoped to accomplish in September 1862.Dr. Alexander Rossino is an independent historian. He earned Master’s and Doctoral degrees in History at Syracuse University, where he taught for two years, before working as an historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He is an expert on the 1862 Maryland Campaign and the author of Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862; The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, The Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders (with Gene Thorp); and Calamity at Frederick: Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam.The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.