Hello everyone.
Smyth Bland Regional Library and the Musuem of the Middle Appalchians are pleased to announce:
The 1st Annual
Southwest Virginia Civil War Symposium
Sponsored by Smyth-Bland Regional Library and the Friends of the Museum of the Middle Appalachians
DATE: Saturday, October 1, 2005
PLACE: ? Madame Russell United Methodist Church, West Main Street, Saltville, Virginia, 24370
Registration Cost: $40 per person, includes handouts, copies of papers, refreshments in morning and lunch.
Contacts: Jeff Weaver at Chilhowie Public Library, PO Box 610, Chilhowie, VA 24319 (276)-646-3404 or
Harry Haynes at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians, Saltville, Virginia (276)-496-3633
Schedule of Events
8:00-9:00 Registration
8:00-9:00 Refreshments (Coffee, Danish)
9:00-9:15 Welcome ? Pat Hatfield, Director, Smyth Bland Regional
Library
Helen Barbrow, President Saltville Foundation
9:15-10:00 Region Overview Panel Discussion Panelists (TBD)
10:00-10:45 Overview of Saltville Actions Harry Haynes, Museum of the
Middle Appalachians &
Jerry Catron, Historical Gossip,
Member Smyth County School Board
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Kentuckians at Saltville Jim Prichard, Kentucky State Library and Archives
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:30 Toland?s Raid (Perhaps) Scott Cole, Author of the 34th
Virginia Cavalry;
1:30-2:15 Future of Saltville Battlefield Robert C. Whisonant, Department of Geology,
Radford University
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:15 Civil War Research in Southwest Virginia
Jeff Weaver, Author, Manager of Chilhowie Public
Library
Eddie Talbert, Director, Buchanan County Public
Library
3:15-3:30 Concluding Remarks Pat Hatfield, Director, Smyth Bland Regional
Library
3:305:00 Tour of Saltville Sites Terry Hunt, 22nd Virginia Cavalry Reenactors
& Charlie Bill Totten, Director of Tourism, Town of Saltville, Virginia
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Chilhowie, Virginia Public Library
PO Box 610
Chilhowie, Virginia 24319
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 15, 2005
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