MEXICO â Students at the Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation (CiTi) were able to connect with a Virginia Museum of History and Culture educator to explore the history of espionage in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars thanks to the CiTi distance learning program.
The distance learning program works with CiTi and component districts to provide educational opportunities and enhance learning experiences via videoconferencing and electronic media.
âOur students have varied interests, so we try to expose them to different topics that are interesting and educational,â said CiTi Exceptional Education teacher Mary Throne.
During the âI Spy: Virginiaâs Secret Agentsâ learning experience, which was geared toward students in grades three through six, CiTi students learned about some of Virginiaâs top-secret agents and how to break codes. Students were excited to learn unique pieces of history such as medicine being smuggled in childrenâs do
Petersburg on My Mind is PAAL s first exhibit since their makeover.
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PETERSBURG - One of the Friday for the Arts! venues just got a makeover thanks to a dedicated patron of the arts.
Bill Nicholson who owns the historic Thomas Day House on High Street in Petersburg was bit by the decorating bug. Giving Petersburg Area Art League s Main Gallery a fresh coat of pain was Nicholson s project on a whim.
On Wednesday, Nicholson was tickled Revere Pewter , and he wasn t the only one.
PAAL President Victoria Revilla was ecstatic and grateful for Nicholson s mission to spruce up the Main Gallery.
The history of how Virginia acquired its first electric chair
Virginia s ultimate sanction was carried out for more than a century on an oak chair from Trenton, N.J. used to execute 267 people who were deemed too vile or dangerous to live among us.
Their limbs and torsos bound by straps and heads crowned with a metal helmet and brine-soaked sponge, the last moments and thoughts of some of the state s most egregious criminals were spent in an electric chair first installed at the Virginia State Penitentiary in 1908.
If the chair was a symbol of extreme, immutable justice, it was also a tool of racial intimidation for much of its history. In modern times, a more diverse group of offenders were electrocuted or killed by injection on a gurney first used in 1995.
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The Exchange Building, Petersburg Area Art League, and others benefit from local man s quick thinking.
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PETERSBURG - The philanthropist who owns the historic Hudson-Day House on High Street is at it again. Last year, Bill Nicholson treated the City of Petersburg s firefighters as well as the entire police force to Local Vibe Café meals.
Instead of food this go-around, Nicholson s act of kindness involves museum assets valued at around $60,000.
In October 2020, Nicholson s friend Lisa Pirelli introduced him to Virginia Museum of History and Culture [VMHC] Exhibit Designer Bryan Condra who shared with Nicholson that the museum under new leadership had embarked on a major remodeling.