The Third Annual After Mother’s Day Tea & Hat Party

Sunday, May 20, 2:00 p.m.

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Enjoy

Violin and Cello Music Entertainment

Speaker Katherine Chantal, Author of “A Tea Poet’s Journey“

Tea Tickets, $25

Best of Wytheville Raffle Basket valued over $1000, Tickets $10 each or 12 for $100

Purchase tickets at The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum or Wytheville Office Supply

For more information, call 276-223-3484

For a limited time only, The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation & Museum will be offering a very special gift to those of you who would be so kind as to make a $25 or more donation to the museum.

Pick one CD for a 25.00 donation to the EBWBFM

For your donation, you will receive one of three available Del Rubio Triplets CDs of your choice.  Pick from the following CDs:

• Three Gals, Three Guitars
• Whip It
• Christmas With The Del Rubio Triplets

The Del Rubio Triplets CDs that are being offered were donated by Milly Boyd of The Del Rubios with the request that they be used to raise funds to support the museum.
 

For additional information on how you can support The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation & Museum, please see our information page here.

The Appalachian Teacher’s Network Conference

In partnership with Radford University,

Wytheville Community College & CGJC Enterprises

The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation & Museum will present an educational institute targeted toward teachers in a 14-county area of southwest Virginia on Saturday, September 17, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm.  In addition to teachers, the Institute is open to the general public and students who have an interest in the life of Mrs. Wilson and the role she played in our nation’s history.  The Institute will be held at the VHDA Building (next to the Museum) located at 105 E. Main Street in Wytheville.

The Institute will center upon the life and times of Edith Bolling Wilson, First Lady to President Woodrow Wilson.  Mrs. Wilson’s accomplishments offer a great viewpoint from which to present a broad array of SOL-related topics to teachers of all grade levels on the following topics:  Edith Bolling Wilson overview including her Appalachian roots, genealogy and ancestry to Pocahontas, and her life as First Lady; World War 1; the suffrage movement; and a lecture/recital of period music.

The program includes seminar-type presentations by academic and community experts as well as tours of the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum, her birthplace, and the Bolling family church – St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Presenters include:  Dr. Grace Toney Edwards, Dr. John Nemeth, Mrs. Deborah Kemper, Mr. Davy Davis, Mrs. Beverly Hoch, Ms. Leslie King, and Mrs. Farron Smith.

The Institute will offer CEU credits through Wytheville Community College.  Fees for the Institute are $15 for the general public, $10 for teachers, and $5 for students.  Twenty $10 scholarships are available for teachers on a first-come, first-serve basis.   Lunch is included.

For more information about First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson and the Institute, please visit our website at www.edithbollingwilson.org, facebook, or call 276-223-3484.

Application forms are available online or at The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum located at 145 East Main Street, Wytheville, VA.

The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation is a 501(c) non-profit organization.   The Museum offers school, club, and bus tours and is opened to the public Tuesday – Saturdays from 10 to 5:00.

Click HERE to download your application.

The Del Rubio Triplets were originally discovered by Bob Hope.  They appeared on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Married with Chidren, Full House, The Golden Girls, and Night Court.  They often performed acoustic guitar renditions of pop-songs such as Devo’s Whip It, Madonna’s Like a Virgin, and Ding Dong The Witch is Dead.

Grammy Award winner, Allee Willis, rediscovered them in 1985, which directly led to their pop fame.  The Del Rubio Triplets performed her song, Neutron Dance, which is the very first pop song they performed and the song they performed on television most often.

Milly Boyd supported the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation and Museum through her generous donations of Bolling family artifacts original to the Bolling home, birthplace of Edith Bolling Wilson and childhood home of her grandfather, Rolfe E. Bolling, located in Wytheville, Virginia.  Mrs. Wilson was First Lady to President Woodrow Wilson.

A memorial fund has been established by co-founders of the Museum, Bill and Farron Smith; fan and friend of Milly’s, Craig Bara; and cousin, Cary Fuller to honor the life of Milly Boyd and the love of the Triplets for their great aunt, Edith Bolling Wilson.

If you would like to continue Milly’s love and support for the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation & Museum, please click the link below to donate to the Milly Boyd Memorial Fund.

Donate to the Milly Boyd Memorial Fund

The Del Rubio Triplets were originally discovered by Bob Hope.  They appeared on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Married with Chidren, Full House, The Golden Girls, and Night Court.  They often performed acoustic guitar renditions of pop-songs such as Devo’s Whip It, Madonna’s Like a Virgin, and Ding Dong The Witch is Dead.

Grammy Award winner, Allee Willis, rediscovered them in 1985, which directly led to their pop fame.  The Del Rubio Triplets performed her song, Neutron Dance, which is the very first pop song they performed and the song they performed on television most often.

Milly Boyd supported the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation and Museum through her generous donations of Bolling family artifacts original to the Bolling home, birthplace of Edith Bolling Wilson and childhood home of her grandfather, Rolfe E. Bolling, located in Wytheville, Virginia.  Mrs. Wilson was First Lady to President Woodrow Wilson.

A memorial fund has been established by co-founders of the Museum, Bill and Farron Smith; fan and friend of Milly’s, Craig Bara; and cousin, Cary Fuller to honor the life of Milly Boyd and the love of the Triplets for their great aunt, Edith Bolling Wilson.

If you would like to continue Milly’s love and support for the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation & Museum, please click the link below to donate to the Milly Boyd Memorial Fund.

Donate to the Milly Boyd Memorial Fund

This year’s After Mother’s Day Tea and Hat Party Silent Auction is for a watercolor by Wytheville artist Beth Pendleton. Entitled After the Tea, this painting features a still life with an Edwardian-era hat and gloves, in the style that Mrs. Wilson would have worn.

This framed, original watercolor is now on silent auction at the Museum. We invite you to visit and place a bid. Bidding will culminate at the After Mother’s Day Tea and Hat Party on May 15. Until then we are accepting bids, which is currently at $75. Bid increments are $5. If you would like to bid, but are unable to visit the Museum or join us for the After Mother’s Day Tea, the Museum staff and volunteers will be happy to take your bid over the phone (276-22-EDITH) or via email at info@edithbollingwilson.org. Just let us know you are interested and we will let you know where the bidding stands. The last long-distance bid will be on Friday, May 13 at 5:00 p.m.

• Two dinner and show tickets to American Bandstand at the Wohlfart Haus Dinner Theatre
• Gift Certificates: Graceful Strokes Massage, Nu-Creation Esthetics, About Face
• Green Fees from the Wytheville Gold Club and Draper Valley Golf Club
• Four boxes of chocolates from Counts Drug Store
• A Wedgwood dish
• EBWB Museum gift items

The overall gift basket is worth over $600. Tickets are $10 per ticket or 12 for $100. The drawing will be held on Sunday, May 15 during the After Mother’s Day Tea and Hat Party. Attendance is not required. Both raffle and tea tickets may be purchased at the Museum, Wytheville Office Supply, and online at ebwbtea.eventbrite.com.* Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Museum.

* Tickets purchased online will be sent out prior to May 15.

Artie Hall and Mike Ramsey from BB&T enjoy a moment at The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum

Before BB&T consolidated its Wytheville bank branches, The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum and the bank were neighbors. Now the two are partners in helping preserve history – specifically the history of Edith Bolling Wilson, First Lady to President Woodrow Wilson. BB&T is a new sponsor of the Downtown Historic Wytheville museum, birthplace and childhood home of Mrs. Wilson.

“BB&T recognizes the benefits The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum brings to the community The Museum Strengthens the downtown area and the visitors it attracts will provide added tax revenue through sales, meals and lodging. As a strong community supporter, we believe in sharing Mrs. Wilson’s story and promoting the Town of Wytheville. We are fortunate to have the draw of a First Lady in our town and we are happy to support it with this donation.,” said Artie Hall, Vice President, Sales and Service Leader of the Southwest Region Administration.

The Museum is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. It is solely run on private donations, fundraising activities, and grants. Having sponsors such as BB&T and other Foundation supporters is what allows the Museum to remain open to the public free of charge. It is also a boom to the local community, as the Museum attracts visitors from all over the United States, bringing more tourism commerce to the area.

Tickets are available online by clicking here.