Humanities: Museum Programs

“Women Making a Positive Difference 
in Amherst County 1920-2020”
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“Women Making a Positive Difference ​In Amherst County
1920-2020” Museum Exhibit  Co-sponsored by AGAR and the Amherst County Museum and Historical Society 
Sharon Rebecca Bryant was the first woman to serve as Chief of the Monacan Indian Nation. To see more about her and the many other women featured in the exhibit who contributed to the Amherst community through civic activity, click the buttons below.
“Amherst Women Interviewed”  video on AGAR’s YouTube Channel  featuring segments of AGAR interviews from
2009-2018
“Wally” Robinson, a former cook at Winton Country Club 44 years, is just one of the Amherst County women featured in this video.
​Click on the button below to view this video.
See “​Amherst Women Interviewed” box below right for a list of the other woman featured in this video.
“Women Voting in Amherst County“  panel discussion
Ted Delany, director of the Lynchburg Museum System and  Chief Public History Officer, was monitor for this panel discussion at Amherst Historical Museum. ​
​Click on the button below to view this video located on AGAR’s YouTube Channel.
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​Amherst Women Interviewed
  • Edith Jones (1908-2015) teacher at Rocky Seat, Amherst Training School, and Central Elementary School, Amherst County, VA
  • Alma Rountrey (1914-2010) teacher at Clifford School, Clifford, VA 1935
  • Rev. Phyllis Hicks (1947-2015), first Monacan Woman ordained as Episcopal Priest, First Director of Monacan Ancestral Museum in Amherst, VA.
  • Lena Sandidge, housewife, mother, farmer, Clifford, VA.
  • Octavia Starbuck, Director, The Amherst County Museum & Historical Society.
  • Elvira Morse, Amherst Woman’s Club President 1985-1987.
  • Douwina Osinga, Amherst Village Garden Club member and Amherst Woman’s Club conservation chair (late 1980's, early 1990s.
  • “Wally” Robinson, cook at Winton Country Club 44 years.
  • Clara Jackson, teacher at Central High Schools, 1950’s & 1960s.
  • Juanita Roberson (1942-2014), later first black female Supervisor, speaking on going to Connecticut to work in tobacco to raise money for college
  • Bev Jones, teacher in Amherst County Schools, on her education at Central High School in the 1960s.
  • Louise McCord Faulconer (1928-2016), worked for Amherst County Schools for 39 years. Principal of Monroe, Temperance, Pleasant View and James River Elementary schools.
  • Barbara Hutcherson Parks (1940-2014), Amherst resident, Lynchburg City Schools Principal at Dearington, Bedford Hills, & TC Miller Elementary Schools.
  • Pastor Margaret P.C. Nelson (1932-2014), USAF Colonel retired, Baptist Minister at St. Peter’s Church. Nurse and nursing instructor, two Master’s Degrees.​
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2021-2022 are made possible as follows:
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible through the National Endowment for the Arts / Art Works, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.  AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health, Richmond; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. 
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and Virginia Humanities.
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