Date: July 16, 2008 Time: 12:00 AM Location: Richmond, Virginia

Strother Conference - 2008

The Strother Conference 2008 was held in Richmond, Virginia, and the host hotel was the Holiday Inn Select/Koger South Conference Center.  Sixty-eight members and their families traveled to the capitol of the Confederacy to enjoy social and history-related activities that included, in addition to the Board and Business Meetings:

• a dinner cruise on the James River.
• dinner at the hotel on Thursday included a group of actors from the area performing music of the period and demonstrations of what life was like in 1862 Richmond.
• a Confederate Capitol Tour bus tour that included the Museum of the Confederacy, the adjacent Confederate White House, the Richmond Battlefield Park Headquarters at Tredegar Ironworks, Hollywood Cemetery, and Monument Avenue with statues of many prominent Confederate men.
• a wine-tasting tour to the Woodland Vineyard Farm Winery.
• the Saturday night banquet at the Holiday Inn was followed by the keynote speaker, John W. Mountcastle, Brigadier General US Army (retired), who spoke on Men, Women and War in Virginia, May 1864. 

For more details on the activities at the 2008 Conference and accompanying photographs, please check the October 2008 issue of the Houses of Strother Newsletter.