October 15, 2026
Belmont Club of Women
REC leaders speak at August meeting
The Belmont Club of Women held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Our guest speakers, Louis O’Berry and Amanda Cooper were from Rappahannock Electric Cooperative with a presentation on Renewable Energy. Rappahannock Electric is a distribution co-operative, which doesn’t own any energy assets, but purchases energy from others. They are 8th or 9th in the nation. Rappahannock Electric is the largest co-op in the area and maintains 17,000 square miles of power lines,etc. They are constantly growing, although it takes time to build the infrastructure. The club had many questions for the presenters, since this is the co-op that they rely upon for their electric service.
Women of Louisa County
The Belmont Club of Women held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. Our guest speaker was Katelyn Coughlan of the Louisa County Historical Society. Her presentation was entitled “Women of Louisa County”. She spoke about many topics, i.e. women’s history, immigrants, the revolution for Central Virginia, Jack Jouett’s historical ride from Cuckoo to Monticello and much more. She also provided interesting maps showing the area years ago vs. now and the homes in those areas. She had many historical documents, pictures to share, but interestingly she didn’t have info to display/share for women’s history (which was the title of her presentation!). She explained that many of the women maintained everything when their husbands were gone, but they were never acknowledged via historical documentation because they were women.
Protecting bird wildlife
The Belmont Club of Women held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Our guest speaker Elizabeth Haynes gave a presentation entitled “Seven Simple Actions to Help Songbirds”. Her interest in song birds started in 2019 and their nature shop, Wildbirds Unlimited in Culpepper, opened in 2023.
