
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1990                   TAG: 9004180242
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: southwest bureau
DATELINE: ABINGDON                                LENGTH: Short

SOUTHWEST VA. LECTURE SERIES IS SCHEDULED

A short non-credit series of six lectures on this part of Southwest Virginia will be offered Tuesdays and Fridays during May 1-22 at the University of Virginia Center here, from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Lectures will be held on two topics at each meeting.

They will include the last hanging in the state of Virginia, the pre-Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain, a survey of Abingdon architecture, the geology and prehistory of Southwest Virginia, a history of the Virginia Creeper Trail, the Civil War in Southwest Virginia, the "Saltville massacre," and the political, economic and physical geography of Washington County.

The $20 tuition covers lectures and handout materials. Registration forms are available from the University of Virginia Center, P.O. Drawer 1987, Abingdon 24210 (telephone 628-6327).

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