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“Written in the Waters”: An Evening with National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Tara Roberts

June 17, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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MCC Celebrates Juneteenth!
Perspective Speakers Series
“Written in the Waters”: An Evening with National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Tara Roberts

Tuesday, June 17, 7 p.m.
Free admission. Registration is required. Register on the FCPL website.
Presented in Partnership with the Fairfax County Public Library. National Geographic explorer and storyteller Tara Roberts follows a team on a quest to document and identify sunken slave shipwrecks. Part adventure story, part scientific log, and part personal memoir, “Written in the Waters” catalogues Tara’s journey with divers, historians, and archeologists who are searching the Middle Passage for the wrecks of ships that carried enslaved Africans.

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