Contact: Jenni Brockman
Telephone: 804-443-3357
Fax: 804-443-6781

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tickets Remain for Goodwin and McCullough at Richmond Forum

Tappahannock (March 11, 2002) - Thanks to a local partnership, Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula residents can still get seats for a presentation by presidential biographers Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough at the Richmond Forum on Saturday, March 16, 2002. The Bank of Essex, Rappahannock Community College Educational Foundation and St. Margaret's School are sponsoring ticket and transportation packages from Tappahannock for the Forum's 2001-2002 season.

Goodwin and McCullough will discuss the art of writing presidential biography. Both historians are Pulitzer Prize winners; Goodwin for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and McCullough for Truman. McCullough also is the author of the recent best-seller John Adams, and served as narrator for the PBS-TV series, The Civil War. In addition to several other historical biographies, Goodwin wrote a best-selling memoir about the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wait Till Next Year.

A Forum ticket and round-trip transportation from Tappahannock to Richmond is just $45. The chartered coach will drop ticket-holders off in the popular Shockoe Slip area for dinner on their own, take them to the Landmark Theater for the Forum program, then on to Tappahannock at the evening's conclusion. The bus leaves St. Margaret's School at 4:15 p.m. and returns at approximately 11:30 p.m.

Tickets also are available for the final program of the season. On April 13, 2002, two former Secretaries of State, the Honorable Madeleine K. Albright and the Honorable James A. Baker III, will discuss the evolution of US foreign policy and the challenges we face in this new century.

Reservations are accepted with payment on a first-come, first-served basis. Make checks out to the Bank of Essex. For more information or to reserve a ticket, contact Jenni Brockman at St. Margaret's School, (804) 443-3357.

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