Shepherdstown’s Literary Genius Caroline “Danske” Bedinger Dandridge (1854-1914)
November 2 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Speaker: Jim Surkamp. Cost: $15; free for fall subscribers and SU students and employees. She authored and published hundreds of authoritative gardening articles, two acclaimed volumes of poetry, and three significant books on the American Revolution, while cultivating more than one hundred varieties of roses. This lecture offers the most comprehensive account of Danske—her life, her siblings and parents, her children, and the famously generous, influential, and eccentric figures who shaped Shepherdstown. The program will feature additional guests providing live singing and dramatic readings.
Organizer: Shepherd University Lifelong Learning
Location: Robert C. Byrd Center, Auditorium (and Zoom)
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