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encouraged to enjoy and join), and there will be light refreshments served in the comfortable and atmospheric confines of Jim and Joan Gannon’s book nook.

Meredith Bean McMath is an award-winning Loudoun County historian. In 1998 she co-founded Run, Rabbit, Run, a History Video company whose first work aired several times on The History Channel. In 2001, the Newseum commissioned McMath to create a living history play based on the true story of three female journalists during the Civil War. She also is a free-lance writer for The Washington Post.

Much of the information McMath will be discussing also serves as the backdrop and texture for her Civil War novel, Pella’s Angel, which focuses on life in Loudoun County from 1863 to Reconstruction through the ordeals of its fictional hero, Annabelle MacBain.

After an encounter with a mysterious man who claims to be a Confederate spy and who digs up a Quaker’s grave, Annabelle MacBain gets caught up in a tumultuous series of events that test her

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