AGAR AND AMHERST COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
COSPONSORED EXHIBITION
“Women Making a Positive Difference
in Amherst County 1920-2020”
COSPONSORED EXHIBITION
“Women Making a Positive Difference
in Amherst County 1920-2020”
NOW PLAYING on AGAR’s YouTube Channel:
"Amherst Women Interviewed"
(“Women Making a Positive Difference in Amherst County “ )
featuring segments of AGAR interviews from 2009-2018
"Amherst Women Interviewed"
(“Women Making a Positive Difference in Amherst County “ )
featuring segments of AGAR interviews from 2009-2018
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.
ALSO PLAYING on AGAR’s YouTube Channel:
“Women Voting in Amherst County “
