32nd annual
Brocks Gap Heritage Day
April 20, 2024
J. Frank Hillyard Middle School, Broadway, VA, 10 - 4.
Free and open to the public.
Free and open to the public.
Over 180 posters of vintage photographs are arranged by families, churches, schools, communities, and other topics. Researchers can use Pat Turner Ritchie’s personal library of family, local, and regional histories. Other genealogists and local historians will share their material and gather new information, sell their books.
Three programs:
11:00 Head for the Hills: The Refugees of Peggy's War
by Karl Rhodes
12:30 Speck Fulk's service in World War II,
by Joe T. May
2:00 Mountain Women Live on: Life & Legacy of Appalachian Women
by Dr. Peggy Shifflett
Other participating organizations:
- Rocktown History (Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society HRHS) selling new books & telling visitors about the work of the society.
- Plains District Memorial Museum, Timberville, highlighting their collections and mission.
- Chimney Rock Chronicle, the area's monthly newspaper with emphasis on good news from the local community.
- DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), photographing old family Bible records to transcribe and put in their national database. Joint project with HRHS.
Donations accepted to purchase tombstones for family cemeteries in Brocks Gap: Dove, Caplinger, and others. Sponsored by Pat Turner Ritchie, patritchie@verizon.net
Want a table space? RSVP by April 14 to save a space. Bring your own table and extension cord if you need an outlet. Contact patritchie@verizon.net
New Book:
There is a chapter on each of Phillip’s Hoover ancestors Sebastian, Peter, Jacob, David, and Emanuel Hoover by Pat Ritchie.
The final chapter has brief histories of Phillip and Sydney’s other ancestors such as Riddle, Turner, and Custer. Some of the Riddle land near Chimney Rock between Broadway and Fulks Run, VA, has been owned continuously by members of the Riddle family since early 1800 or before.
If you are a Hoover with Brocks Gap connections but not a direct descendant of Phillip and Sydney, this book may have information on your earlier Hoover generations. Write me at patritchie@verizon.net if you have any questions.
Portraits of the Past: Bergton and Criders Communities, 1903. This 127-page book has photos of families of the area, taken by traveling photographer J. M. Hill of Bridgewater. It includes a brief biography of each person in the photos, when we could identify them, several pages of unidentified photos (maybe you’ll know some!), and some other photos from the 1880s of local people. $22 plus $4 for shipping, and you can order them from Pat Turner Ritchie. patritchie@verizon.net
See programs from 2023 Heritage Day
- The Will Brothers Go to War
by Joe T. May - Fulks Run Funnies
by Ronnie Fulk - How to Preserve your Family Heirlooms
by Fran Ritchie
Photos from 2023 Heritage Day:
Displays arranged by families, churches, communities, occupations, etc. |
Over 300 people attend each year. |
Jonesbourgh TN Genealogical Society shared Dove & Basore/Basher information. |
DAR scanning family Bibles to preserve the information. |
Books for sale |
Plains District Memorial Museum and Biller/Tusing researchers. |
Chimney Rock Chronicle |
Taking a break |
Greeting table |
Welcoming visitors |
Family discussions underway. |
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