In Service & Beyond February 21, 2009

In this fascinating presentation, Doris Walker Woodson, Maymont Foundation board member and Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Virginia State University, brings to life the work and personal lives of the people who were employed as maids, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs and nursemaids. As a granddaughter of early 20th-century Maymont head cook Frances Walker, Ms. Woodson gives her unique perspective on the story of domestic service in Richmond, the South and the United States during this period of social, political and technological change