Award-winning history writer To speak at Silver Spring Library

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Contact: Marilyn Wisoff, 301-588-6573
For Immediate Release: March 10, 2000

Award-winning history writer
To speak at Silver Spring Library

Virginia Laas, author of "Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century: the Marriage of Violet Blair," will be featured as part of the Friends of the Library Speakers Series at the Silver Spring Library on April 6, beginning at 8 p.m. The library is located at 8901 Colesville Rd.

Violet Blair, a Silver Spring resident, was the niece of Montgomery Blair, postmaster general of the United States during the Lincoln administration. Dr. Laas, associate professor of History at Missouri Southern State College, also wrote "Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee." "Love and Power…" has received the Best Book Award from the Missouri Conference on History.

The Silver Spring Historical Society is co-sponsor of the program.

For more information about the Speakers Series or the Friends of the Library, call 301-565-7689. To receive information about the Silver Spring Historical Society, call 301-565-2519.

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