Sunday, October 30 & Monday, October 31 at 8 p.m., actor David Keltz returns to The Lyceum to re-create Edgar Allan Poe's visit to Virginia in 1849, shortly before he died. Keltz performs varying selections each year, but the program always includes a chilling story or two such as "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," or "The Tell-Tale Heart," along with well-known poems "The Raven" and "El Dorado." Tickets are $15 per person, and are available by calling The Lyceum at 703.746.4994 or purchase online.

To appreciate the historical background of the PBS drama series Mercy Street, The Lyceum concludes its series of lectures on Civil War-era medical care with “The Journal of Anne Reading” on October 5.  As the second season premieres in 2017, so does our new series of lectures on food during the Civil War. Join us on January 12, 2017 for “The Hidden World of Food in the Civil War;” on February 23 for “Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War;” and on March 9, 2017 for “Oysters, Baked Beans, and Soldier's Bread: A Culinary View of Abraham Lincoln's Life in the White House,” by Rae Eighmey. For more information about the lectures or to reserve tickets, visit The Alexandria Online Shop or call 703.746.4994.

This teapot, in The Lyceum’s Howard W. Smith, Jr. Collection, demonstrates the beautiful and high quality work produced by Charles A. Burnett. Burnett, born in Virginia in 1769 was working by 1790. Although the reference has been lost, according to tradition he advertised in Alexandria in 1793. Burnett moved his shop to Georgetown by 1800, where he produced and retailed silver for close to fifty years.

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