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Brocks Gap Heritage Day

Brocks Gap Heritage Day

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

J. Frank Hillyard Middle School
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
J. Frank Hillyard Middle School
226 Hawks Hill Drive
Broadway, Virginia 22815
5408968961