2025-2026 Program Calendar
*Meet and greet: 1:30 p.m. for all 2 p.m. meetings. Please come!
**Note Saturday meeting dates.
September: Thursday, September 11, 2025: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Peter Jefferson: More Than a Footnote to His Famous Son Thomas and 130th Birthday Celebration of Blue Ridge Chapter
Speaker: Hugh Rowland
Location: The Commons, 501 Westminster–Canterbury, 501 VES Road, Lynchburg
Hostesses: Arlene Cundiff, Judy Lavinder, Barbara Sherburne
October: Thursday, October 9, 2025: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Joseph Warren: Our “Founding Surgeon”
Speaker: Charlie Driscoll
Location: Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1021 New Hampshire Avenue, Lynchburg
Hostesses: Gail Kowalski, Georgann Charlton
November: Saturday, November 15, 2025: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Uncovering Our Roots: Effective Strategies for Genealogical Research
Speaker: Deborah Harvey, CG®
Location: Hamble Center at Amherst County Museum and Historical Society, 154 South Main Street, Amherst
Hostesses: Judy Miller, Ellen Pettyjohn
December: Thursday, December 11, 2025: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Library of Congress Veterans History Project
Speaker: Edie Light, President, Lynchburg Town and County, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Music: Sherry Goodman
Location: Amelon United Methodist Church, 220 Amelon Road, Madison Heights
Hostesses: Kathy Carwile-Johnson, Bonnie Worsham
January: Thursday, January 8, 2026: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Archeology at Poplar Forest and the Oxford and Cambridge Series Ridgway Pearlware
Speaker: Eric Proebsting, Director of Archeology, Poplar Forest
Location: Poplar Forest, 687 Poplar Forest Drive, Forest (Service entrance).
Hostesses: Rosalie Majerus, Judy LeHew
February: TBD
Presidents’ Day and Joint Meeting
Location: TBD
Hostesses: James River Chapter
Registration: Cost: TBA. Checks payable to Blue Ridge Chapter, NSDAR; mailed to Treasurer Jayne Enochs, 6872 Wildway Road, Gladstone, VA 24553–3406, by date announced
March: Thursday, March 12, 2026: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Czech It Out – Remembering the Liberation of Europe
Speaker: Linda Carroll
Location: Tharp Funeral Home, 220 Breezewood Drive, Lynchburg
Hostesses: Jean Driscoll
April: Thursday, April 9, 2026: 2:00 p.m. (Social time 1:30 p.m.)
Program: Avoca Museum Tour
Speaker: Caleb Lafoon
Location: Avoca Museum, 1514 Main Street, Altavista
Hostesses: Linda Carroll, Carol Hardin
May: Saturday, May 16, 2026—Annual Meeting (Social Time 11:00 a.m.; Meeting 11:30 a.m.)
Program: Annual Meeting and Business Luncheon
Location: TBD
Hostess: Terrie Conrad
July: Saturday, July 4, 2026: 9:00 a.m.
Fourth of July DAR Booth
Location: Poplar Forest, 1776 Poplar Forest Parkway, Lynchburg, VA 24502