BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//github.com/ical-org/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Eastern BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Book Discussion Group CATEGORIES:Lecture CATEGORIES:Museums CATEGORIES:Old & Historic Alexandria CATEGORIES:Old Town DESCRIPTION:Imported on Aug 26\, 2026\, 32 days before the event.\nTo veri fy info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si= 63498\n\nJoin us at Lloyd House for a series of lectures featuring local authors\, with the first featuring Bob Dover\, author of Bridges of Washi ngton\, D.C. A History and Guide. Explore the history of our nation's cap ital through this history of its bridges. In the late 1700s\, the first b ridges\, now completely gone\, connected the new Federal City to the outs ide world. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, more and b igger crossings arose to support industry\, allow the expansion of suburb s\, commemorate cultural and civic leaders\, and enhance the aesthetics o f the District's waterfronts and parks. Although the city abandoned civic -minded\, commemorative\, and monumental constructions for utilitarian hi ghway monoliths in the mid-twentieth century\, a recent renaissance has s een a welcome shift to walkability and beauty instead of brute utility. U sing the city's bridges as an index of the times\, author and D.C. native Bob Dover tracks the growth\, decay\, and rebirth of the District from t he 1750s to today. \n\nLocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St.\nFee s: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and volunteers.\nTags: Book Di scussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old & Historic Alexandria\, Old Town \n\nWeb resources:\n\nPurchase Tickets online\nhttps://shop.alexandriava. gov/Events.aspx\n DTEND:20260927T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T194023Z DTSTART:20260927T190000Z GEO:38.807209;-77.046797 LOCATION:Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St. SEQUENCE:8 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Lecture: "Bridges of Washington\, D.C." TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:3037840e-da00-478b-ae89-7f0e96e8a429 URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Imported on Aug 26\, 2026\, 32 days before th e event.
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Join us at Lloyd House for a ser ies of lectures featuring local authors\, with the first featuring Bob Do ver\, author of Bridges of Washington\, D.C. A History and Guide. Explore the history of our nation'\;s capital through this history of its bri dges. In the late 1700s\, the first bridges\, now completely gone\, conne cted the new Federal City to the outside world. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, more and bigger crossings arose to support ind ustry\, allow the expansion of suburbs\, commemorate cultural and civic l eaders\, and enhance the aesthetics of the District?s waterfronts and par ks. Although the city abandoned civic-minded\, commemorative\, and monume ntal constructions for utilitarian highway monoliths in the mid-twentieth century\, a recent renaissance has seen a welcome shift to walkability a nd beauty instead of brute utility. Using the city?s bridges as an index of the times\, author and D.C. native Bob Dover tracks the growth\, decay \, and rebirth of the District from the 1750s to today. \n
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L ocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St.\n
Fees: $15/$12 for His toric Alexandria Members and volunteers.\n
Tags: Book Discussion Gro up\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old &\; Historic Alexandria\, Old Town
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\n X-COA-DTSTAMP:20260820T194023Z BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Lecture: "Bridges of Washington\, D.C." : Please visit website to confirm time\, location\, etc. DURATION:PT30M REPEAT:2 TRIGGER:-PT30M END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture CATEGORIES:Museums DESCRIPTION:Imported on Aug 26\, 2026\, 53 days before the event.\nTo veri fy info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si= 63497\n\nLecture: "Descendants" by John Durel \n\nJoin us at Lloyd House for a series of lectures featuring local authors\, with the second featur ing John W. Durel\, author of "Descendants\, The Divided Lineage of a Lou isiana Creole Family." "Descendants" raises questions of racial identity\ , interracial relationships\, and racism as experienced by eight generati ons of a Creole family living in New Orleans from the mid-eighteenth into the twenty-first century. Each chapter relates stories of individuals wh ose lives were shaped by race in the context of the times in which they l ived\, revealing evolving attitudes\, behaviors\, and laws\, with implica tions for our understanding of race in America today.\n\nDr. Durel will p resent an overview of the book\, read excerpts\, and lead a discussion of some of the surprising stories that surfaced through his extensive histo rical and genealogical research. \n\nBorn in Thibodaux\, Louisiana\, John Durel holds a PhD in American History from the University of New Hampshi re. Following a career working in and consulting with museums nationwide and internationally\, in 2019 he returned to his interest in historical r esearch and writing. "Descendants" is his first book.\n\nLocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St.\nFees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Memb ers and volunteers\nTags: Lecture\, Museums\n\nWeb resources:\n\nPurchase Tickets online\nhttps://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n DTEND:20261018T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T194321Z DTSTART:20261018T190000Z GEO:38.807209;-77.046797 LOCATION:Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St. SEQUENCE:7 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Lecture: "Descendants" by John Durel TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:aaea0c3c-ce51-48da-ab74-f078e443eeb5 URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Imported on Aug 26\, 2026\, 53 days before th e event.
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Lecture: "\;Descendants" \; by John Durel \n
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Join us at Lloyd House for a series of l ectures featuring local authors\, with the second featuring John W. Durel \, author of "\;Descendants\, The Divided Lineage of a Louisiana Creo le Family."\; "\;Descendants"\; raises questions of racial id entity\, interracial relationships\, and racism as experienced by eight g enerations of a Creole family living in New Orleans from the mid-eighteen th into the twenty-first century. Each chapter relates stories of individ uals whose lives were shaped by race in the context of the times in which they lived\, revealing evolving attitudes\, behaviors\, and laws\, with implications for our understanding of race in America today.\n
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Dr. Durel will present an overview of the book\, read excerpts\, and l ead a discussion of some of the surprising stories that surfaced through his extensive historical and genealogical research. \n
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Born in Thibodaux\, Louisiana\, John Durel holds a PhD in American History fro m the University of New Hampshire. Following a career working in and cons ulting with museums nationwide and internationally\, in 2019 he returned to his interest in historical research and writing. "\;Descendants&qu ot\; is his first book.\n
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Location: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Was hington St.\n
Fees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and volu nteers\n
Tags: Lecture\, Museums
\nPurchase Tickets online
\n X-COA-DTSTAMP:20260820T194321Z BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Lecture: "Descendants" by John Durel : Please visit website to confirm time\, location\, etc. DURATION:PT30M REPEAT:2 TRIGGER:-PT30M END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Book Discussion Group CATEGORIES:Lecture CATEGORIES:Museums CATEGORIES:Old & Historic Alexandria CATEGORIES:Old Town DESCRIPTION:Imported on Aug 26\, 2026\, 81 days before the event.\nTo veri fy info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si= 63499\n\nJoin us at Lloyd House for a series of lectures featuring local authors\, with the third featuring Jonathan S. Jones\, author of Opium Sl avery\, Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis. \n\nDuring the Civil War\, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morp hine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended\, th ousands of ailing soldiers became addicted\, or "enslaved\," as nineteent h-century Americans phrased it. Veterans\, their families\, and communiti es struggled to cope with addiction's health and social consequences. Med ical and government authorities compounded veterans' suffering and imbued the epidemic with cultural meaning by branding addiction as a matter of moral weakness\, unmanliness\, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as "opium slavery" limited the efficacy of care and left many veterans to su ffer needlessly for decades after the war ended.\n\nDrawing from veterans ' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records\, gove rnment and medical reports\, newspaper coverage of addiction\, and advert isements\, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of op iate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail\, illuminating the war's traumatic legacies. In doing so\, Jones provides critical historic al context for the modern opioid crisis\, which bears tragic resemblance to that of the post-Civil War era.\n\nLocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Wash ington St.\nFees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and volunteers. \nTags: Book Discussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old & Historic Alexan dria\, Old Town\n\nWeb resources:\n\nPurchase Tickets online\nhttps://sho p.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n DTEND:20261115T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260820T193707Z DTSTART:20261115T200000Z GEO:38.807209;-77.046797 LOCATION:Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St. SEQUENCE:7 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Lecture: "Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans ..." TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:afe40fd3-cdc7-46f4-8d4c-2b96ba2102b1 URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Imported on Aug 26\, 2026\, 81 days before th e event.
To verify info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calend ar/Detail.aspx?si=63499
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Join us at Lloyd House for a ser ies of lectures featuring local authors\, with the third featuring Jonath an S. Jones\, author of Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans and America?s First Opioid Crisis. \n
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During the Civil War\, the utility a nd widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential t o wartime medicine. After the war ended\, thousands of ailing soldiers be came addicted\, or ?enslaved\,? as nineteenth-century Americans phrased i t. Veterans\, their families\, and communities struggled to cope with add iction?s health and social consequences. Medical and government authoriti es compounded veterans'\; suffering and imbued the epidemic with cultu ral meaning by branding addiction as a matter of moral weakness\, unmanli ness\, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as ?opium slavery? limited the efficacy of care and left many veterans to suffer needlessly for deca des after the war ended.\n
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Drawing from veterans'\; first hand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records\, government and medical reports\, newspaper coverage of addiction\, and advertisement s\, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-ad dicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail\, illuminating the war?s traumatic legacies. In doing so\, Jones provides critical historical cont ext for the modern opioid crisis\, which bears tragic resemblance to that of the post?Civil War era.\n
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Location: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St.\n
Fees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Members and volunteers.\n
Tags: Book Discussion Group\, Lecture\, Museums\, Old &\; Historic Alexandria\, Old Town
\nPurchase Tickets online
\n X-COA-DTSTAMP:20260820T193707Z BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Lecture: "Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans ...": Please visi t website to confirm time\, location\, etc. DURATION:PT30M REPEAT:2 TRIGGER:-PT30M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR