The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Histyorical Society will present a program about "Sensation, Science and Scandal: The Popular Press in Antebellum America" at the Heritage Center in Dayton, VA.

Mark Sawin will discuss how dimensions of the economic, technological and social changes underway in Antebellum American society manifested themselves in the national culture.

The public is invited.  Program is free.

The Heritage Center is located at 382 High Street in Dayton, VA

This annual reenactment is a unique historical experience taking place on the original 1964 battlefield in New Market, VA.

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 19th & 20th.

Tour the grounds of the famous First Battle of Kernstown during this opening of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley's Rose Hill property. The only battle that Stonewall Jackson ever lost, the fascinating story of First Kernstown is told by a walking trail with seven interpretive signs. Walk the battlefield, understand Jackson’s tactical mistakes, and learn about the Valley family living at Rose Hill when this famous Civil War battle was fought in its backyard on March 23, 1862.

Tours are self-guided, and the walking trail is a little less than one mile in length.

Location:  Rose Hill, 1850 Jones Roiad, Winchester VA

Free to MSV Members; all others, free with purchase of MSV gallery admission on Oct. 15th, or $5 only at  Rose Hill (pay admission at Rose Hill).

This annual reenactment is a unique historical experience taking place on the original 1964 battlefield in New Market, VA.

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 19th & 20th.

Mr. Keith Stickley, Editor of the Free Press newspaper, will be speaking at the Woodstock Museum’s Program Meeting on Thursday, May 24, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.  His presentation is entitled, “Life in Downtown Woodstock from 1948 to 1960.” His presentation will include old photographs and other Woodstock memorabilia.  Baby Boomers of all ages are welcome to join us as we take a walk down memory lane! (or, in some cases, learn what life was like…) 

FREE & Open to the Public!! 

To be held at the Woodstock Town Council Chambers, 135 North Main Street, Woodstock. 

this program is sponsored by the New Market Historical Society and will be held at the New Market, VA Town Hall.  The subject is Jackson's Valley Campaign: Speed and Deception Vs. Overwhelming Odds - by Greg Bair, avid Civil War Enthusias.

Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign in April and May 1862 kept Union forces from reinforcing McClellan at the Peninsula Campaign.  Jackson and the fast-moving infantrymen he called his "foot cavalry" ranged up and down the Shenandoah Valley in northern Virginia, despite the best efforts of three Federal commanders, John Charles Fremont, Nathaniel Banks and Irvin McDowell, to stop him.  Banks lost so many supplies to Jackson's lightning raiders that Confederates took to calling him "Commissary Banks."  Military officers from many countries have come to the valley to study how Jackson tied up so many troops with so few forces.