[VAcourier] An Evening With Mort Kuntsler and The Stonewall Procession--May 11-12, 2007

Fri Apr 27 16:47:27 EDT 2007

Come and hear talks by nationally renowned artist Mort Kuntsler and 
nationally recognized author Rod Gragg.

The Friday evening banquet and auctions will benefit both the Lynchburg 
Historical Foundation and the National
Civil War Chaplains Museum.

The registration fee for the parade will help to defray the cost of the 
procession and to retire the restoration costs of the Packet Boat Marshall
hull in River View Park in Lynchburg, Virginia.

If anyone has any questions about this or anything else, please have 
them contact either Sally Schneider, the Executive Director of the Lynchburg
Historical Society, at 434-528-5353 or  Kenny Rowlette at 434-582-2087. 

You can use these same numbers to purchase tickets to the Friday night 
banquet. 

Thank you for your support of this most unique event.

The Stonewall Procession Committee

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May 11 - 13, 2007

Please join the Foundation for a weekend of Civil War history packed 
with events for one and all. We start Friday evening with dinner at 
Arther S. DeMoss Learning Center, Grand Lobby, Liberty University with 
nationally renowned Civil War artist Mort Kunstler and author Rod Gragg. 
Mr. Kunstler will unveil his Lynchburg print, Going Home, The Stonewall 
Procession, Lynchburg Va. May 13, 1863 
<http://www.lynchburghistoricalfoundation.org/stonewall/fundraising.php>.  
The evening will start at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets - $55.00 - Limited Seating

Tickets are available at Dixie Outfitters, Madison Heights, 846-3006, 
The Framery on Memorial Ave. 846-2844 and Lynchburg Historical 
Foundation, 528-5353.

History in the Making

Saturday May 12, 2007
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Mort Kunstler and Rod Gragg will be at the Depot 
Plaza for a print and book signing. 

A portion of all sales will be donated by Dixie Outfitters and The 
Framery to the Foundation and the Museum. Can't attend the signing? 
Order your print early.  Dixie Outfitters and the Framery are taking 
orders now. Unframed prints are $225.00. Several prints have already 
been pre-sold. 

11:00 a.m. Mayor Joan Foster will read a Proclamation and lay a wreath 
at the Confederate Monument at the top of Monument Terrace on Court Street.

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. bus tours to Historic Civil War Sites. Pick up 
station on Jefferson Street. Tour busses will go to the Packet Boat 
Marshall, Historic Sandusky, Old City Cemetery and Ft. Early. Sandusky 
will have a Stonewall Jackson Exhibit.

1:30 p.m. The grand finale memorial procession

Uniformed re-enactors, United Daughters of the Confederacy and civilians 
alike, will gather on Jefferson Street and follow the procession route 
when General Jackson's body came through Lynchburg on the way to 
Lexington on the May 13, 1863. There will be a brief stop on Main 
Street, at Bailey-Spencer Hardware, the site of the First Presbyterian 
Church, where the Lynchburg Funeral was held.  Excerpts from the funeral 
sermon will be read.  The procession will end at the bottom of 9th 
Street where there will be a cannon fired and a twenty-one gun salute. 
 If anyone would like to walk in the procession download the application 
here 
<http://www.lynchburghistoricalfoundation.org/stonewall/pdf/Stonewall_Procession_App.pdf>. 
There is a $15.00 fee per person to participate in the procession. We 
would love to see the streets lined with people and many in the 
procession. There are historic criteria to meet, so please go to our 
website for all information. Proceeds of this event will go directly to 
the Foundation.

There will be a Civil War Encampment with Lee's Lieutenants and 
Longstreets Corp, Sutlers selling their wares, music.  Amazement Square 
will sponsor children's activities.  Old City Cemetery will have their 
Antique Rose Festival and Historic Sandusky will sponsor a Jackson exhibit.

11:00 a.m. - Sunday the concluding event will be a church service at the 
encampment by the Re-enactors Mission for Jesus Christ.  This service 
will be at Riverfront Park.

All in all a very historic and fun-filled weekend. 

Be a part of the history.  Come out and play!

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