Ella E. Schneider Hilton survived a remarkable childhood that took her through the purges of Stalinist Russia, the refugee camps of Nazi and post-war Germany, and life in the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi. On Tuesday, October 13, at 11:30 a.m. at Webber Memorial Baptist Church, she will be relating her astonishing journey from extreme hardship to the American dream. Hilton’s book, “Displaced Person: A Girl’s Life in Russia, Germany, and America,” (LSU Press; 2006) has been described as a “poignantly and freshly rendered tale of determination. It is the story of a girl caught up first in the…

The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia (CHSV) will present a lecture on Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient Joshua Chamberlain at the historic Magnolia Grange House Museum on Saturday, June 20, at noon. According to local historian Jack Bantle who will present the lecture, “Joshua Chamberlain was a college professor in Maine with no military training when he volunteered during the Civil War for the Union Army.  He reached the rank of Brigadier General and was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery at Gettysburg.” At the surrender ceremony for the infantry of Robert E. Lee’s Army at Appomattox Court…