March 2018 Meeting (Includes Audio)
Posted March 7, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Filed Under: All News, Front Page, MeetingsOur guest speaker for our March 1, 2018 meeting was historian and author Mary Miley Theobald. Mary, author of the wonderful new Brandermill History Book, spoke on “Brandermill: the History and the Book.”
Mary Miley Theobald is a historian and writer. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the College of William
and Mary, worked for Colonial Williamsburg and taught American history and museum studies at Virginia
Commonwealth University for many years. She has written 14 nonfiction books and more than 200
articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers, plus five historical novels. In 2012, Mary won a national
competition for Best First Crime Novel with the first of her Roaring Twenties murder mysteries, The
Impersonator. The fourth in that series came out in August, and a Hollywood producer has optioned the
story for a television series. For fun, she is helping start up a winery near Charlottesville, where everything
she does would have been illegal during the 1920s.