I'll be spending some time with the Board of Trustees and the staff of the Virginia Historical Society, facilitating a series of discussions about the strategic direction of the Commonwealth's preeminent center for history and genealogy. It's a bit of an interesting homecoming for me; in the early 1990s, when I was trying to make a living as a freelance writer, I spent my weekends manning the front desk at the VHS, greeting visitors to the archives and galleries.