The Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia will meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the Community Room of the Gloucester Library, Main Street Center.
The program, “She Made History,” will be presented by Sidney Ripley, a museum specialist with the Gloucester Museum of History. Ripley will share the stories of nine trailblazing and daring women of Gloucester County who dared to break barriers and change history to build a better future in local businesses, in the military, at home and in civil rights arenas.
Several of these women are featured in a mural on Gloucester’s Main Street, commissioned by the Cook Foundation representing 250 years of women in and from Gloucester contributing to the county, Virginia and the United States of America.
Ripley is a 2020 graduate of Radford University, where she earned a bachelor of arts in Museum Studies. She is working on her master’s degree in Museum Studies at Harvard Extension School, and enjoys research, local stories and social history. A Gloucest...