Virginia Shultz-Charette

Virginia Shultz-Charette is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she specialized in Civil War history, women's political history and public history. She is a member of the Winchester Soldiers' Monument Commission, dedicated to maintaining the Civil War monument, which is in the National Register of Historic Places. She has given numerous programs about the war and the more than three hundred soldiers listed on the monument. She has also given walking tours, done research...See more

Virginia Shultz-Charette is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she specialized in Civil War history, women's political history and public history. She is a member of the Winchester Soldiers' Monument Commission, dedicated to maintaining the Civil War monument, which is in the National Register of Historic Places. She has given numerous programs about the war and the more than three hundred soldiers listed on the monument. She has also given walking tours, done research for the monument's annual cemetery walks and written a book with Verna Gilson for Arcadia's Images of America series about Winsted and Winchester. She lives with her husband, youngest son and her cocker spaniel, Tobey. See less