LIFE@Lynchburg | The Battle of Lynchburg: Defending Hearth & Home

Name: LIFE@Lynchburg | The Battle of Lynchburg: Defending Hearth & Home
Start: 2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-17T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Sydnor Performance Hall

Schedule

Wed Sep 17 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Sydnor Performance Hall | Lynchburg, VA

Join Greg Starbuck ‘14 MA, ’19 MA, Executive Director of Historic Sandusky, as he guides us through how the battle affects Lynchburg to this day.
Speaker Biography:
Greg Starbuck '14 MA, ’19 MA holds bachelor’s degrees in history (1982) and business management (1983) from Virginia Tech and master’s degrees in history (2014) and non-profit leadership (2019) from the University of Lynchburg.
Following graduation from college, he worked as a Historical Interpreter at the National Colonial Farm in Accokeek, Maryland (1984), and at Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, Georgia (1985). From 1988 to 1996, he worked as an exhibits technician for the Virginia Aquarium. In 1996, he became the site manager of Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, Georgia, a second system fort used during the Civil War to defend the Savannah River.
From 2000 to 2002, he served as the first director of education at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. Since 2002, he has served as executive director for Historic Sandusky, a historic house museum in Lynchburg, Virginia, that served as General David Hunter’s headquarters during the Battle of Lynchburg.
In 2005, he led a coalition of regional tourism partners in establishing the Hunter’s Raid Civil War Trail, part of the Civil War Trails system in Virginia. In 2010, he wrote and directed “Hunter’s Raid: Defending Hearth & Home,” a documentary film about the campaign, which won three regional Emmy Awards in 2011.