Author: Brynn Boyer

Debra Schleef is participating in a panel discussion, “Nuestra Tierra, Nuestro Hogar: Latinos in Virginia” at the University of Richmond, Library of Virginia Lecture Hall, Thursday, September 30, 6-7 p.m. The discussion will focus on the experiences of recent Hispanic immigrants to Virginia and the opportunities and challenges they face.

Schleef, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is coauthor, along with H. B. Cavalcanti, of “Latinos in Dixie: Class and Assimilation in Richmond, Virginia.”

A reception and entertainment follow the panel discussion.

Perhaps time travel is possible, after all.

It certainly seemed so yesterday at Belmont, as guests enjoyed seeing the Falmouth estate’s South Lawn restored to its appearance of long ago.

James Harding is a recipient of a 2010-2011 DAAD Visiting Professorship in the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin. The DAAD is the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (the German Academic Exchange Service) and is financed by the German Government. Harding, a professor of English, linguistics and communication will spend a year in Berlin teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on the history of American experimental theatre.

University of Mary Washington students with a penchant for the arts helped transform a downtown city street into a temporary art gallery at the first annual Fredericksburg Via Colori Festival. They were among about 75 artists who registered for the community event organized by the Fredericksburg Arts Commission.

Story in today’s Free Lance-Star about our putto.

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/092010/09272010/578302