With great pleasure we announce that the 2008 Carter Society annual meeting and reunion will be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, the weekend of September 12 to 14, 2008. This is a change from our usual meeting in June, which found us in unbearably hot weather in Tidewater Virginia!

The welcoming reception will begin at 5 pm on Friday, at the historic home of Lloyd and Ashlin Smith. Bring copies of family trees and pictures to share with others. Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails will be served.

Saturday will feature a day-long trip in an air conditioned touring bus to three sites not usually opened to the public: Round Top (1836) home of Benjamin Franklin Randolph and wife Sarah Champe Carter, the exquisite 1798 home of Robert Carter and Polly Coles, and after a lunch at the Historic Mitchie Tavern (1770's), we will visit Bleinham and the Bleinham Winery, site of Edward Carter's original home which burned circa 1840.

Dr. K. Edward Lay, author and senior faculty at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, will guide this Saturday tour of historic homes. The annual general membership meeting will be back at the Comfort Inn at 5 pm, with dinner served at the Ivy Inn at 8 pm. New Officers for the 2008-2010 term will be introduced at the 8 am Sunday breakfast at the Comfort Inn, which will be followed by a talk by Edmund Berkeley on the Extant Robert King Carter Papers found on his website at the Unversity of Virginia. Mr. Berkeley was the former Director of the Aldermann Library Special Collections at the University.

Dr. Lay will then lead a tour of the historic University of Virginia Grounds, which were designed by Thomas Jefferson, who also oversaw its construction.

For further details, please contact Carol Hendricksen at ceh&q@yahoo.com

For registration, please contact:
Betsy Carter
The Carter Society Reunion
PO Box 11
Aldie VA 20105