This year's Churchill Fellows Weekend at Westminster College will bring an artist, a general and a famed journalist to town, according to Tim Riley, director and chief curator of the National Churchill Museum.
Jon Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with editorial duties at Newsweek and Time magazines, will deliver the Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture at 11:45 a.m. Saturday at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury.
Gen. David Petraeus is a retired four-star general who served as the director of the CIA from 2011-2012. He will speak at 2:30 p.m. at the church.
"It's a great constellation of speakers," Riley said. "We have not only Jon Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, but also Gen. Petraeus. Both are well poised to speak about Churchill and leadership in general."
An additional guest will be artist Edwina Sandys, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Her art has a prominent place on Westminster's campus. "Breakthrough," a piece created from a portion of the Berlin Wall, stands beside the National Churchill Museum. Sandy's nephew, Duncan, will also be in attendance.
According to Riley, the museum has a relationship with the National Churchill Library and Center in Washington D.C., and some of its members will visit the museum in Fulton that weekend.
"Tickets are very limited at this point," Riley said. "We've had over 200 advance registrations."
Tickets can be reserved on the National Churchill Museum website - nationalchurchillmuseum.org - or by calling 573-592-5602.
Churchill Fellows Weekend attracts variety of speakers
March 30, 2017 at 2:50 a.m. | Updated March 30, 2017 at 6:29 p.m.