American history and culture curator rex ellis. Good evening. My name is beth kelly. Im the Vice President of the Education Research and historical interpretation division. Its my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. The word welcome has a great deal of meaning for Colonial Williamsburg. We have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th Century Community since 1932. 40 years ago, the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story. And so, with determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th Century Community. Blending social history with public history to tell the African American story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. This is the first of three panelists discussions we will have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on African American
Williamsburg interpreters talk about bringing africanamerican stories to life and how they felt compelled to tell their ancestor stories appropriately. Panelists include American Civil War museum ceo Christy Coleman and curator rex ellis. Good evening. My name is beth kelly and i am the Vice President of the education, research and historical interpretation division. And it is my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. The word welcome has a great deal of meaning for Colonial Williamsburg. We have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th Century Community since 1932. Fort years ago the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story, and so with determination and courage and p perseverance, the program was designed by our panelists tonight so we could tell the whole story of our 18th community. Blending social history with public history to tell the africanamerican story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. This i
The word welcome has a great deal of meaning we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th Century Community since 19 8 30 2 40 years ago, the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story. And so, with determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th Century Community. Blending social history with public history to tell the African American story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. This is the first of three panelists discussions we will have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on African American stories, and also on october 18th, where we will be focusing on the future. Our panelist that discussion will be helping us to think about how we continue to tell the story. As mitchell said, its all of our story. I know our panelists well. They have
To begin our program, please welcome the honorable donny r. Tuck, mayor of the city of hampton. Please take your seats. Good morning, and welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first african landing commemorative ceremony. Its my honor to welcome Governor Ralph Northam and first lady pamela northam, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, attorney general mark herring, senator mark warner and senator tim kaine, u. S. Representative bobby scott and representative elaine lorry of virginia. Representative karen bass of california and representative william clay of missouri. Speaker of the house of delegates, kirklin cox, first counselor for the embassy of rwanda, former Virginia Governor jared, former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, former missouri governor eric greitens, former representatives james moran and l. F. Payne, chief judge Roger Gregory of the First Circuit court of appeals, members of the governors cabinet, members of virginia General Assembly, including Senate Majority leade
From fort monroe in hampton roads, virginia, this is about two and a half hours. [ applause ] to begin our program, please welcome the honorable donny artuck, may your of the city of hampton. Please take your seats. Good morning, and welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first african landing commemorative ceremony. Its my honor to welcome Governor Ralph Northam and first lady pamela northam, Lieutenant Governor justin fairfax, attorney general mark herring, senator mark warner and senator tim kaine. U. S. Representative bobby scott, and representative elaine luria of virginia, representative karen bass of california and representative william clay of missouri, speaker of the house of delegates, First Council lawrence monzai for the embassy of rwanda, former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, former missouri governor eric grietens, chief judge Roger Gregory of the First Circuit court of appeals, members of the governors cabinet, members of virginia General Assembly including Senate M