Historic Fairfax City, Inc., will hold its annual meeting at 7 p.m. on May 10 at Historic Blenheim. The meeting is open to the public. 

The featured speaker will be Dr. Lynn Rainville, executive director of Institutional History & Museums at Washington & Lee University, in Lexington, Va.  Dr. Rainville is an archaeologist, anthropologist, author, speaker, and public lecturer, whose decades-long studies include both the Southern and New England regions, with a particular focus on Virginians doing extraordinary things in the past.  

She will speak on "Virginia's Role in World War I," to include the Red Cross, nurses, sailors, army combat troops, steelworkers, shipbuilders, food suppliers, pilots, stenographers, doctors, and other civilian roles, as well as noting the 100,000 draftees, and 3,600 lives lost.  

Her writings and speaking engagements have been covered in dozens of national newspapers and on public television, and the subject matter runs the gamut from historic cemeteries, enslaved cemeteries, segregated schools, poor farms, asylums, women and children to ordinary Virginians doing great things. 

Dr. Rainville is the former Dean of Sweet Briar College, and has taught at UVA, Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, Mary Baldwin College, GMU (as well as for OLLI), and lectured at numerous private organizations. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

More information can be obtained by contacting Historic Blenheim, and membership chair Linda Baringhaus at lindamb3510@yahoo.com. After April 22, you also may obtain reservations by calling Historic Blenheim at 703-591-0560. Reservations are free and advised.