This year’s theme for Virginia Archaeology Month is "Written in Stone: Exploring the Commonwealth’s Historic Cemeteries." Come to the Brawdus Martin Germanna Visitor Center at 2062 Germanna Highway, Locust Grove, VA 22508-0279 [Telephone: (540) 423-1700] to find out what you can do to help the Germanna Foundation's Urquart, Hitt, Hansbrough, and Grayson Cemeteries.

Join us at GermannaFest, a 40th anniversary celebration at the Locust Grove Campus honoring the 14,000 students who have attended Germanna Community College since its founding was made possible by a donation of 100 acres of land by the Germanna Foundation. 

Germanna Community College, in cooperation with The Orange County Historical Society, The Museum of Culpeper History, and The Germanna Foundation, present a lecture by Frank Stringfellow Walker, Jr.: “The Land and Its People: Shackaconia, Fairfax, Spotswood & You.” The lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 104B/C at the Germanna Community College Joseph R.

Germanna Community College, in cooperation with The Orange County Historical Society, The Museum of Culpeper History, and The Germanna Foundation, present a lecture by Frank S.

You are cordially invited to join Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech and other preservation leaders to to celebrate efforts to preserve a key 49-acre portion of the Wilderness Battlefield located along State Route 20, near Saunders Field.

The event and news conference, organized and led by the Civil War Preservation Trust, will be held Wednesday, October 27, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. The celebration will also include refreshments and a public walking tour.

October 31 is Reformation Sunday, a date observed throughout the world among denominations that trace their development through the Reformation. Reformation Sunday memorializes the day in 1517 on which Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg.