What’s not to like about the Virginia Historical Society?
Free admission, compelling exhibitions, bus trips, behind-the-scenes tours, and of course the venerable Banner Lectures. I attended the VHS’s 7/14/2011 Banner Lecture presented by Brooks Smith and Wayne Dementi: an engaging talk about their book, Facts and Legends of Sports in Richmond. How can you go wrong with busts of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson greeting you as you enter the Robins Family Forum for the lecture, and then concluding the lecture with a smiling big-screen photo of Emma and Ethan Smith in their Soapbox Derby Car