Brocks Gap Heritage Day
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Fulks Run Elementary
School
Over 130 photo displays of
Brocks Gap scenes & people. New
books for sale. Book signings by authors. Research books available to use.
Special programs:
11:30 Pie Safe Designs and their making
Jeffrey S. Evans is founder of Jeffrey S. Evans &
Associates, Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers in Mt. Crawford, VA. He formerly
served as president and head of the Catalogued Auction division of Green Valley
Auctions, Inc. (1979-2008). Jeff and Kurt C. Russ, former
director of Washington and Lee University's Laboratory of Anthropology and
independent scholar from Lexington, began a research project in 2010 of pie
safes in the Shenandoah Valley. The culmination of their research will be a pie
safe exhibit in 2014 at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. http://thevirginiasafeproject.com/ http://jeffreysevans.com/
12:15 Local Men who were killed in action during World War II
Delegate Joe T. May is a Broadway native and engineer and inventor who has served since 1994 in the Virginia
General Assembly. He will share his research in the service history of several
men with Brocks Gap connections who gave their lives for their country in
Europe during World War II. http://www.joetmay.com/home/
1:00 Russel F. “Frankie” Whetzel, KIA
Nancy May Hoover is a Broadway native and a retired director of the Shenandoah Valley
Electric Cooperative and was chair of the regional association of the Virginia,
Maryland, and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives and was president
of the Broadway-Timberville Chamber of Commerce. The subject of her program,
Russel F. Whetzel, was a Bergton native and was killed in action during World
War II.
2:00 Antique Textile Expressions in Contemporary Language
Priscilla
Blosser-Rainey and Vicki Hottle Mongold.
Both women are Rockingham County natives with ties to Brocks Gap and
they share a strong interest in antique textiles and crafts. They will display
some of their textile collections and discuss how many of our modern-day
expressions, like “dyed in the wool” and “black sheep of the family” came into
being.
Bring your old letters, deeds, old photos, old
family Bibles, etc. to be copied for future books. Covers all areas of Brocks
Gap—Runions Creek, Genoa, Fulks Run, Bergton, Criders, Dry River, Yankeetown,
Palos, and Hoover.
Free and open to the
public
Sponsored by Pat Turner Ritchie, 540 662-1475
or patritchie@verizon.net
and Garnett & Lena Albrite Turner
and Garnett & Lena Albrite Turner