So Ends This Day
An Illustrated Update on the Life and Times of the USS Monitor, from 1861 to yesterday

Although the Union ironclad Monitor may have ended her working career in a gale off Cape Hatteras in December 1862, her story does not end there. Discovered in 1973, established as a National Marine Sanctuary in 1975, and the subject of intense recovery operations by NOAA and the U.S. Navy since then, the curious “cheesebox on a raft” still has stories to tell. Anna Holloway brings the Monitor to life in this lively, illustrated presentation by combining log entries, official correspondence, personal letters from officers and crew, and material evidence found in the ship itself. For more information, call (804) 358-4901 or visit www.virginiahistorical.org.

Anna Holloway
Anna Holloway is the Vice President of Museum Collections and Programs at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, VA where she oversees the Curatorial, Collections Management, Education, Conservation and Exhibition Design functions of the Museum. From 2003 to 2007 she served first as curator of the USS Monitor Center and then Chief Curator. Before the cheesebox on a raft entered her life, she was the Director of Education and Interpretation, and Pirate at The Mariners’ Museum.