ONGOING

Earn Your Scout Badge!

The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, has introduced a program designed for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

• Earn a specially designed patch
• Complete a scavenger hunt
• Tour 10,000-square-foot exhibit In the Cause of Liberty
• Try on replica clothes and touch reproduced tools
• View more than 150 artifacts
• Only $5 per person (scouts or parents/troop leaders)

  ° Includes patch and activity book for scavenger
  hunt

• Earn other patches, merit badges, belt loops, or pins
• Complete community service requirements 
• Add on themed programs to customize your visit!

  ° Men of Iron (noting life at Tredegar Iron works) ° The Common Soldier
  ° Women’s Roles in the Civil War
  ° C.S.S. Virginia
  ° Civil War Prisons
  ° Tour of Brown’s Island

For reservations please call Hilliary Turner (804) 780-1865, ext. 23 or email education@tredegar.org.

NOVEMBER 2008

Richmond's Civil War Hospitals

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Time: 2 p.m.

Fee: FREE

Mike Gorman, NPS Ranger, will discuss Richmond’s Civil War Hospitals in the NPS Theater. Chuck Raugh will address the evolution of the military field hospital system and 19th Century surgical technique using authentic medical equipment of the period.

Time: 3:30 p.m.

Fee: $10 or free with paid admission or Center membership

The American Civil War Center’s educator Jenny Didas will lead a 30 minute artifact walking tour through the exhibit In the Cause of Liberty. Her program will explore the lives of famous Civil War nurses: Phoebe Yates Pember, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Susie King Taylor and Sarah Emma Edmunds disguised as Franklin Thompson. For more information contact Jenny Didas (804) 780-1865 x 23

DECEMBER 2008

3rd Annual Holiday Happenings at Historic Tredegar

Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008

Time: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Celebrate the holidays at the Center with reduced admission, holiday displays, period music, children’s activities, and light refreshments.

AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR 2009

Lincoln and the South
March 12-14, 2009

The Center’s second major conference, Lincoln and the South, will be held at the University of Richmond. Probably no president has ever been as vilified as Abraham Lincoln was in the South during the Civil War.  Outstanding scholars on the subject will convene to discuss this bitter relationship.  This enlightening event is offered in partnership with the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond during the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.

If you wish to receive a registration packet via regular mail please email education@tredegar.org.