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25th
Annual Literary Awards Celebration
Features Author and Culinary
Historian Michael W.
Twitty
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Creator of Afroculinaria.com,
the first blog devoted to African American
historic foodways and their legacies, Twitty
has been honored by FirstWeFeast.com as
one of the 20 greatest food bloggers of all
time.
Presented by Amazon and Dominion Energy, the
Literary Awards Celebration honors Virginia
writers and their contributions to
literature. Best-selling Virginia author
Adriana Trigiani hosts the celebration,
which will honor veteran journalist and
writer Katie Couric for outstanding
contributions to literature and journalism.
This festive evening begins with cocktails,
followed by a seated dinner and awards
ceremony. The authors will be available for
book signings at the end of the event. Purchase your
tickets here.
All proceeds support the
collection, public programming and education
initiatives of the Library of Virginia.
Leading up to the awards, join us for three
free virtual conversations with authors who
are literary award finalists. Scheduled for
Sept. 28 (Fiction Discussion
Panel), Oct. 6
(Poetry Discussion Panel),
and Oct. 12 (Nonfiction Discussion
Panel), the events will be
accessible through the Library’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
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Can
Can Café Opens at the Library on
Sept. 19
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Can Can Brasserie, a
Parisian-style bistro and bakery in
Richmond’s Carytown neighborhood, will open
the Can Can Café in the Library of
Virginia’s lobby on Monday, Sept. 19. This
partnership brings a convenient breakfast
and lunch option to those visiting the
Library or the Capitol Square
area.
Open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3
p.m., Can Can Café will offer indoor and
outdoor seating. Breakfast will include
fresh-baked pastries and lunch will feature
soup, salad and sandwiches, as well as to-go
pastries, desserts and other items.
Can Can’s signature coffee service will be
available throughout the day.
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Virginia
Newspaper Program Receives NEH
Grant
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The Library’s Virginia Newspaper
Program is among the
recipients of $31.5 million in grants for
226 humanities projects across the country
recently announced by the National Endowment for
the Humanities. This round of
funding supports the National Digital
Newspaper Program and ongoing newspaper
digitization work in Alabama, Alaska,
Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Maine,
Minnesota, Nebraska, South Carolina,
Virginia and West Virginia.
Led
by project director Errol Somay, the
Virginia Digital Newspaper Program received
$219,801 to digitize 100,000 pages of
historical Virginia newspapers dating from
1780 to 1963 with a focus on the early
Republic period (1780–1820) as well as
expansion into the 20th century.
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Left to right:
Peter E. Broadbent, C. Paul Brockwell
Jr., Carol G. Finerty and the Honorable
R. Steven Landes
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Governor
Youngkin Appoints Board
Members
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Governor Glenn
Youngkin recently announced additional
key administration appointments
including two new and one reappointment
to the Library Board and one new
appointee to the State Historical
Records Advisory Board.
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The Library Board
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Peter E. Broadbent Jr.,
of Richmond, is a partner with the
Christian and Barton law firm,
specializing in general business law,
communications law, intellectual
property, and government relations law.
He previously served on the Library
Board from 1996 to 2006 and again from
2010 to 2015, including as chair in
2003–2004.
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C. Paul Brockwell Jr.,
of Richmond, has been appointed to a
second term on the Library Board.
Brockwell has served on the Library
Board since 2018 and is currently chair.
Since 2020 he has also been a member of
the Library of Virginia Foundation
Board. He is associate director of
communications for the MCV Foundation.
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Carol G. Finerty, of
Alexandria, has worked for nearly 40
years in the U.S. Department of State,
serving as a congressional liaison in
the Office of the U.S. Coordinator for
Refugee Affairs and in the Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,
Office of Policy and Public Diplomacy.
State Historical Records Advisory
Board
- The Honorable R. Steven
Landes, of Augusta County,
represented the 25th District in the
Virginia House of Delegates for more
than 20 years. Since 2019 he has served
as Clerk of Court for August County.
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Don’t
Miss Scott Reynolds Nelson’s
Weinstein
Author Series Talk at the
Library
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Join us at the Library on Thursday,
Sept. 22, at 6:00 p.m. as
history professor and award-winning author
Scott Reynolds Nelson discusses his latest
book, Oceans of Grain, a revelatory
global history that shows how cheap American
grain toppled the world’s largest empires.
Nelson compares the conflicts over western
American expansion in the Civil War to
conflict over Russian expansion into the
Black Sea. This free talk includes a book
signing.
The Carole Weinstein Author
Series supports the literary arts by
bringing both new and well-known authors to
the Library of Virginia through online or
in-person events. Free and open to the
public, the series focuses on Virginia
authors and Virginia subjects across all
genres.
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Sweet
Bitter Blues Comes to the
Library on Sept. 23
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Blues music fans, mark your calendars for
Friday, Sept. 23, when the Library hosts
musician Phil Wiggins and his co-author
Frank Matheis in a conversation about
Sweet Bitter Blues, their
compelling narrative about the Piedmont
blues scene in the Washington, D.C., area.
Many of the region’s best-known traditional
bluesmen and women had deep roots in
Virginia, including Flora Molton, Archie
Edwards, and Wiggins’s long-time musical
partner, John Cephas.
The
event includes a music performance by
Wiggins, a widely acknowledged master of the
Piedmont style and a blues harmonica legend.
A reception opens this free evening at 5:15
p.m., followed by the program at 6:00 p.m.,
and a book signing at 7:15 p.m.
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