Musem sets History Talks lecture Saturday
The contributions of the matriarch of one of the South’s most wealthy and powerful families will be the topic when the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History hosts the first of two fall History Talks programs Saturday.
The event will get under way on the museum’s third floor at 2 p.m., and is free to the public, according to museum Executive Director Matt Edwards.
“For this first of two History Talks programs, we are very excited to have author Michelle Gillespie, a professor of history at Wake Forest University and the author of ‘Katharine and R.J. Reynolds; Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South,’” Edwards said.
The contributions of the matriarch of one of the South’s most wealthy and powerful families will be the topic when the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History hosts the first of two fall History Talks programs Saturday.
The event will get under way on the museum’s third floor at 2 p.m., and is free to the public, according to museum Executive Director Matt Edwards.
“For this first of two History Talks programs, we are very excited to have author Michelle Gillespie, a professor of history at Wake Forest University and the author of ‘Katharine and R.J. Reynolds; Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South,’” Edwards said.