Local History Virtual Program featuring Bethany Veney's Letters

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 7:00pm


Bethany Veney Flyer

February 15-Shenandoah

7:00 p.m. Local History Virtual Program at the Town of Shenandoah Museum 507 First Street, Shenandoah, VA 22849.   There will be a virtual program via a Zoom link provided by the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project.  Dr. Jennifer Blair, University of Ottawa, will share her research discovered while studying the letters of Bethany Veney, an enslaved woman in Page County.  Bethany Veney dictated her life story in 1889 which became a published book:  The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.