The Foreman-Hazlett War Stories

Civil War Cannons & More

Noel Foreman will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling on Tuesday, March 6 at noon to discuss his father's WWII experiences. Mr. Foreman’s wife Anne Hazlett Foreman, the well regarded local artist, will discuss her summer travels with her family to various Civil War battlefields to find and catalog cannons for a book her father, James C. Hazlett, M.D., co-authored (still the most authoritative publication on the subject). Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please call 304-232-0244 for more information.

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Feb 28: African American Civil War Soldiers

Wilkes Kinney will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday February 28 at noon to discuss the participation of African Americans in the Civil War as both Union and Confederate Soldiers. The program is part of both the library’s Black History Month and Civil War Sesquicentennial observances. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please call 304-232-0244 for more information.

FEB 21 AT NOON: Quilts & the Underground Railroad

FEB 21 AT NOON: Kate Quinn returns with John Mattox, Curator of the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, to discuss the use of patterns in Quilts as coded communication for slaves escaping to the North.

CANCELED: Prostitution in 19th Century Wheeling

CANCELED AND RESCHEDULED FOR JULY 10 AT NOON.

Dr. Barbara Howe, former director of WVU’s Center for Women’s Studies, will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling on Tuesday, February 14 at noon present “Cyprians and Courtesans, Murder and Mayhem,” a look at prostitution in Wheeling from 1830-1865, examining the lives of women who were often forced into prostitution because of poverty. During the Civil War, city officials struggled to control prostitution in a city full of soldiers. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please call 304-232-0244 for more information.