Program to explore James Wharton’s Depression-era films of the Northern Neck

The next program in the Lancaster Virginia Historical Society’s “Zooming In On Local History Virtual Speaker Series” will be “The James Wharton Films: An Enduring Record of Northern Neck Life in the 1930s.”

The program will be presented by Joni Carter at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 15, via Zoom.

In 2016, Carter initiated the Wharton Films Project to bring attention to a rediscovered collection of more than 10 hours of 16mm silent films created by James Wharton of…

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