On February 16, author, playwright, poet, educator and artist, Larry D. Giles will discuss the book he is writing about his childhood memories of growing up in rural Essex County and the Northern Neck. Larry’s poetry and creative nonfiction often center on family, on reinvention and preservation of culture and community, rural Virginia life along the Rappahannock, and on personal resilience and strength, with sometimes mystical multicultural inter-weavings.

Registration is now closed. A recording will be available after the program.

Research & Relevance is a series of webinars centered on the research we continue to collect about Menokin's cultural landscape and its people, and its relevance in our modern lives.

On Thursday, June 17, join us for B(l)ack on a Plantation, a Research & Relevance webinar focused on the Black person’s experience of plantation sites. From 1769 to 1865, Menokin was residence to over 200 enslaved people. From the Lees to the Hardwoods, each family that owned Menokin was dependent on the forced labor of these enslaved men, women, and children to ensure that Menokin remained successful and profitable while also having their personal needs attended to. Menokin honors the lives and legacies of the people that were so essential to not only its creation but its daily operation.

Featuring panelists Wisteria Perry, an educator and historical interpreter from the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News, VA; Reginald Pearman, a Menokin Board Trustee, educator and photographer; Frank Johnson, a descendant of enslaved people who lived at Menokin and current Chair of the local Richmond County History Museum; and Justin Reid, Director of Community Initiatives at Virginia Humanities, as moderator.

Registration is now closed. A recording will be available at a later date.

This webinar is free thanks to generosity of our donors. Consider making a gift to the Annual Campaign to support future Menokin programming.

Join Pia Spinner, Menokin’s Education Research Assistant, on Thursday, February 11 to kick off our new Research & Relevance webinar series! Pia will be presenting some of the research they’ve done so far as they discuss the history of slavery in the Northern Neck and how genealogy can be used as a research tool beyond family history. Registration is now closed, but the webinar will be recorded and shared at a later date.

This webinar is free thanks to generosity of our donors. Consider making a gift to the Annual Campaign to support future Menokin programming.