Berry Continues Lecture Series On U.S. Presidents
Oak Hill and The Martha Berry Museum will continue its fall lecture series, “U.S. Presidents: Letters and Contested Elections,” Tuesday, Oct. 14, with a 7 p.m. presentation featuring Martha Berry’s correspondence with various presidents.
Admission is free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, advance reservations are advised. Call 706-368-6775 to RSVP.
The Berry College founder wrote to six presidents, among them Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Her most well known correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt resulted in his famous visit to the Berry Schools in 1910.
Presenters will include Rebecca Henry, the newly hired museum assistant for Oak Hill and The Martha Berry Museum. Henry is a Berry alumna who received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in studio art in May 2008. She will be joined by Dusty Dye, a student docent at Oak Hill and The Martha Berry Museum. Dye is an honors history major with prospects of continuing her education in public history.
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