Deyerle Series on Local History Session 5: The Revolutionary History of the Shenandoah Valley In-Person
This year’s Deyerle Series on Local History and Culture will celebrate VA250 with a focus on the Shenandoah Valley.
In the fifth lecture of the series, Nick Powers, Curator of Collections at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, will discuss the museum's new exhibit, Revolutionary Valley. Far across the Blue Ridge Mountains from the famous battlefields at Yorktown, the Shenandoah Valley is often overlooked when considering the American Revolution and its ongoing legacy. But from the colonial period through today, the Valley region has been and continues to be a place of revolutionary thought, action, and consequence. The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley’s new landmark exhibition, Revolutionary Valley, explores that impact. This lecture will expand upon some of the exhibition’s key themes, stories, and objects, spanning the Revolutionary period through to the social, political, and civil rights movements that echoed across centuries.
Registration is requested for planning purposes, so please click "Begin Registration" below.
Central Library, 174 S. Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Contact:
Kristin Evans
kevans@mrlib.org
540-434-4475 ext. 109
- Date:
- Thursday, October 29, 2026
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Central Library
- Branch:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Adults (ages 18+)
- Categories:
- History Local Interest
Nick Powers is Curator of Collections at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia. A native of the Shenandoah Valley, Powers graduated from James Madison University in 2011 with a degree in History. In 2014, he graduated from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. At the MSV, Powers researches, exhibits, and lectures on the museum’s collection of Valley fine, decorative, and folk and self-taught art, as well as the collection of American, European, and Asian art assembled by museum benefactor Julian Wood Glass Jr. Powers is the author of multiple articles on Shenandoah Valley and Southern decorative arts, material culture, and history. He is also a contract editor for the New Discoveries feature of the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts.