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:Lecture CATEGORIES:Museums DESCRIPTION:To verify info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calend ar/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 featuring John W. Durel\, author of "Descendants\, The Divide d Lineage of a Louisiana Creole Family." "Descendants" raises questions o f racial identity\, interracial relationships\, and racism as experienced by eight generations of a Creole family living in New Orleans from the m id-eighteenth into the twenty-first century. Each chapter relates stories of individuals whose lives were shaped by race in the context of the tim es in which they lived\, revealing evolving attitudes\, behaviors\, and l aws\, with implications for our understanding of race in America today.\n \nDr. Durel will present an overview of the book\, read excerpts\, and le ad a discussion of some of the surprising stories that surfaced through h is extensive historical and genealogical research. \n\nBorn in Thibodaux\ , Louisiana\, John Durel holds a PhD in American History from the Univers ity of New Hampshire. Following a career working in and consulting with m useums nationwide and internationally\, in 2019 he returned to his intere st in historical research and writing. "Descendants" is his first book.\n \nLocation: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St.\nFees: $15/$12 for Histor ic Alexandria Members and volunteers\nTags: Lecture\, Museums\n\nWeb reso urces:\n\nPurchase Tickets online\nhttps://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.a spx\n DTEND:20261018T203000Z DTSTAMP:20261008T195816Z DTSTART:20261018T190000Z GEO:38.807209;-77.046797 LOCATION:Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St. SEQUENCE:8 STATUS:CANCELLED SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Lecture: "Descendants" by John Durel TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:aaea0c3c-ce51-48da-ab74-f078e443eeb5 URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:To verify info please see https://apps.alexandri ava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=63497
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Lecture: "\;De scendants"\; by John Durel \n
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Join us at Lloyd House for a series of lectures featuring local authors\, with the second featuring John W. Durel\, author of "\;Descendants\, The Divided Lineage of a Louisiana Creole Family."\; "\;Descendants"\; raises question s of racial identity\, interracial relationships\, and racism as experien ced by eight generations of a Creole family living in New Orleans from th e mid-eighteenth into the twenty-first century. Each chapter relates stor ies of individuals whose lives were shaped by race in the context of the times in which they lived\, revealing evolving attitudes\, behaviors\, an d 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 ex cerpts\, and lead a discussion of some of the surprising stories that sur faced through his extensive historical and genealogical research. \n
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Born in Thibodaux\, Louisiana\, John Durel holds a PhD in Americ an History from the University of New Hampshire. Following a career worki ng in and consulting with museums nationwide and internationally\, in 201 9 he returned to his interest in historical research and writing. "\; Descendants"\; is his first book.\n
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Location: Lloyd Hous e\, 220 N. Washington St.\n
Fees: $15/$12 for Historic Alexandria Me mbers and volunteers\n
Tags: Lecture\, Museums
\nPurchase Tickets online
\n X-COA-DTSTAMP:20261008T195816Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Book Discussion Group CATEGORIES:Lecture CATEGORIES:Museums CATEGORIES:Old & Historic Alexandria CATEGORIES:Old Town DESCRIPTION:Imported on Oct 23\, 2026\, 22 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:20261008T195925Z DTSTART:20261115T200000Z GEO:38.807209;-77.046797 LOCATION:Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St. SEQUENCE:8 STATUS:CANCELLED SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Lecture: "Opium Slavery\, Civil War Veterans ..." TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:afe40fd3-cdc7-46f4-8d4c-2b96ba2102b1 URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Imported on Oct 23\, 2026\, 22 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
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