Humanities 2026 Program
Article in the Amherst New Era Progress that came out prior to the event.
“COOLWELL” Video on Youtube
Michael Ozment, the videographerfor Coolwell, has uploaded a video onto Amherst Glebe Arts Response's (AGAR's) YouTube. The Video is accessible to the public free of charge at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58o_peaNIY.
AGAR hopes your friends and family enjoy the interviews. Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.
Michael Ozment, the videographerfor Coolwell, has uploaded a video onto Amherst Glebe Arts Response's (AGAR's) YouTube. The Video is accessible to the public free of charge at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58o_peaNIY.
AGAR hopes your friends and family enjoy the interviews. Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested.
2:30pm Sunday, June 7, 2026
Amherst County Museum and Historical Society
Hamble Center
(154 South Main Street, Amherst, behind museum)
Open to the public free of charge.*
Coolwell is an historically significant Black neighborhood in Amherst County, VA. Crystal Rosson, local community historian and genealogist, will present Coolwell historic photos, audio reminiscences and video interviews of longtime Coolwell neighbors, friends and family. Lynn Rainville, public historian, will share information about Coolwell residents who helped to build and run the Sweetbrier Plantation and Sweet Briar College.
Dr. Lynn Rainville is an author, speaker and public historian who studies ordinary Virginians doing extraordinary things in the past. Crystal Rosson is a local community historian and genealogist.
AGAR will present stories on video
from students who attended Mount Airy Elementary School in the
1950s and 1960s.
Amherst County Museum and Historical Society
Hamble Center
(154 South Main Street, Amherst, behind museum)
Open to the public free of charge.*
Coolwell is an historically significant Black neighborhood in Amherst County, VA. Crystal Rosson, local community historian and genealogist, will present Coolwell historic photos, audio reminiscences and video interviews of longtime Coolwell neighbors, friends and family. Lynn Rainville, public historian, will share information about Coolwell residents who helped to build and run the Sweetbrier Plantation and Sweet Briar College.
Dr. Lynn Rainville is an author, speaker and public historian who studies ordinary Virginians doing extraordinary things in the past. Crystal Rosson is a local community historian and genealogist.
AGAR will present stories on video
from students who attended Mount Airy Elementary School in the
1950s and 1960s.
Although event is free, reservations shoud be made by calling the
Amherst County Museum Tues-Fri 10am-4pm at 434-946-9068
or by emailing [email protected].
Amherst County Museum Tues-Fri 10am-4pm at 434-946-9068
or by emailing [email protected].
This performance is partially sponsored by the Virginia Commission for the Arts Touring Program
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
