The George C. Marshall Foundation will host Gen. John F. Shortal for a Legacy Lecture on his book, “Code Name Arcadia: The First Wartime Conference of Churchill and Roosevelt,” on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 5:30 p.m., at its building located on VMI Parade Avenue on Virginia Military Institute post.
Washington and Lee University will present a public reading and performance by GennaRose Nethercott, an awardwi nni ng author and founder of the Traveling Poetry Emporium, today, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. in Northen Auditorium on the W&L campus.
Bill McKibben, author, educator, activist and founder of Third Act, will give a lecture on Monday, Sept. 26, in University Chapel on Washington and Lee University’s campus, at 5:30 p.m. The title of his talk is “The Climate of Clim ate: Are We Finally Starting to Move.”
Sarah Horowitz — professor of history and head of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington and Lee — has published a new book that hit shelves on Sept. 6.
Congressman Ben Cline has announced the start of this year’s Congressional App Challenge (CAC), a competition designed to encourage student participation in computer science, STEM, and coding.
The Friends Of The Chessie Trail (FOCT) will be hosting a potluck dinner and dance at Jordans Point Pavilion on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Helen Y. Weng, a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist and research associate at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Osher Center for Integrative Health, will give a lecture this Thursday, Sept. 22, at 5 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater as part of Washington and Lee University’s Mudd Center for Ethics series on “Beneficence: Practicing an Ethics of Care.”
Rockbridge area author and educator Cynthia Atkins will be teaching a creative writing workshop, “Writing: Tell Your Story, Find Your Voice” Tuesdays, 4 to 5:30 p.m., from Oct. 11 to Nov. 8, at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave. The courses will meet for five sessions. Students will start with drafts and work towards finished pieces in a peer workshop format.
