Next Brocks Gap Heritage Day: April 20, 2013

Same place, Fulks Run Elementary School, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tentative programs are about antique textiles (family pieces), World War II soldeirs from  Brocks Gap & Plains District of Rockingham County, and pie safes. More details later as they are finalized.

Help spread the word.

If you'd like to have a display, let me know before April 10 so we can save you a space. If you bring your own table, it's free. If you need a table, we'll rent an extra one from the rental company for about $10 each.

More details about Brocks Gap Heritage Day Sat. April 21, 2012

Joe T. May's program on World War II soldiers will begin with the service history of Bill Crider, son of Sam Crider of Fulks Run. He also has details on Bill Sager of Fulks Run, Orville Neff and Lawrence Holsinger of Broadway. As part of his research, Joe has also visited the battlefields where these men fell in service to their country.

Six authors will be there to sign and discuss their books:

• Bonnie Paul, Bernhart & Company, Shenandoah Valley Folk Art Fraktur (1774-1850)
• Thelma Estep Showalter, with Pat Ritchie & Chris Bolgiano, Fulks Run Elementary School 50th Anniversary 1961-2011, A Community Treasure
• Rosemarie Palmer, Civil War Stories
• Elsie Renalds Newcomer & Janet Renalds Ramsey, 1861, Life in the Shenandoah Valley
• Jerry Holsworth, Civil War Winchester
• Mildred Renalds Wittig, Henkel-Renalds Connection with Ancestral Scripts and Collections

We start at 11 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. Heritage Day is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted for our tombstone project, to erect tombstones in family cemeteries to preserve the names of the people buried there. We have already erected stones in seven cemeteries and plan to do at least one this year.

Hope you'll be able to join us on Saturday.

More details about 2012 Brocks Gap Heritage Day

We'll have two special programs on April 21.

v 11:30   Bonnie Paul, “The Mystery of the Brocks Gap Fraktur Artist”
Bonnie has been a member of the Board of Trustees of The Heritage Museum for six years. She was exhibit director of “Bernhart & Company, Shenandoah Valley Folk Art Fraktur (1774-1850)”

v 1:30    Joe T. May, “Local men who were killed during World War II”
Delegate Joe T. May is a Broadway native currently serving his eighth term in the Virginia General Assembly. He will share his research in the service history of several men who gave their lives for their country in Europe during World War II.

Brocks Gap Heritage Day set for April 21, 2012

Celebrate the past and present with us at the 22nd annual Brocks Gap Heritage Day, Sat., April 21,  2012, at Fulks Run Elementary School, Fulks Run, VA, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

See old photos of Brocks Gap families, use our books to do research, talk with other researchers. We're planning two new programs this year, and more details will be out soon.