Tuesday, July 14, 6:00 p.m.
For more than a decade,
Brent Leggs
has been working tirelessly to preserve important African American cultural landmarks like Westchester's own
Villa Lewaro,
the home of America's first self-made female millionaire,
Leggs, the executive director of the
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
at the
National Trust for Historic Preservation
, was featured earlier this year in a lengthy profile in the
New Yorker
. "
One site at a time
," writes the magazine's Casey Cep, "
Leggs and his colleagues are changing not only what history we preserve but what we think it means to preserve it
."
Join him on
Tuesday, July 14, at 6:00 p.m.
, for a virtual discussion about saving these too-often-overlooked historic sites.
