Past Lecture Series

Historic Polegreen Church Foundation

Past Lecture Series

2003 Dr. Jan Swearingen, Professor of English at Texas A & M University, speaking on "The Patrick Henry/Samuel Davies Connection". Also, a musical presentation by Dr. John Turner, Program Developer/Producer of the Religious Project of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

2005 Robert Bluford, Jr., President of the Foundation, portrayed colonial dissenter Samuel Morris, credited as being one of the first in the region to challenge the Established Church in the 1740s. The program was titled: A Conversation with Samuel Morris: the Man Behind the Minister.

2006 Dan Roberts, host and producer of the popular public radio show A Moment in Time, in a program about the life and significance of Reverend Samuel Davies.

2007 Noted church architect James Depasquale in a program titled A Celebration of Richmond's Historic Houses of Worship:Reclaiming the Ecclesiastical. The talk examined the definition of “church”and its evolving history as explored in its architecture.