NEW RIVER TOPIC OF SYMPOSIUM

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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 11, 1993                   TAG: 9304110003
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER SOUTHWEST BUREAU
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Medium
NEW RIVER TOPIC OF SYMPOSIUM
Presentations on the New River and its surroundings from the perspectives of history, ecology and the future will be made next week.
Speakers will be taking part in the 11th annual New River Symposium from Thursday through Saturday at the Wytheville Ramada Inn.
Field trips and a musical program also are on the agenda.
A reception will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Registration will start at 8 the following morning.
The program will open Thursday with a welcome from Wytheville Community College President William Snyder and a presentation from John Morgan of Emory and Mike Mayfield, Boone, N.C., on "The New River as the Old River."
Thomas Worth of Greensboro, N.C., will speak on "Preserving Land Along the New River" and Randi Lemmon, Blacksburg, on "A New River Land Trust - It's About Time."
A nature walk and a historic tour of Wytheville are among the field trips Thursday afternoon. Irish folk singer Frank Emerson will perform Thursday night.
Speakers on Friday include Paul Beers, Christiansburg, on "Lynching of Raymond Bird"; Kathy Largen, Dugspur, "Levels of Radon Gas in Select Caves in the New River Trail State Park"; F. Steb Hipple, Johnson City, Tenn., "The Changing Structure of Income and Employment in the New River Basin"; Elrica Graham, Pulaski, "Sharing the Unique Legacies in the New River Valley"; Richard Little and David Sturm, Morgantown, W.Va., "Trails of the Indian Ridge Corridor of the Great Kanawha-New River Bio-Region"; R. Jay and Karen Stipes, Blacksburg, "Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog[wood] Gone?"; Ron Vineyard, Williamsburg, "Virginia's Conestoga"; and Michael Caplinger, Morgantown, "Refurnishing the Thurmond Depot."
The speaker at the 7 p.m. dinner will be educational and interpretive specialist Richard Pawling of Reading, Pa., on "Interpreting One of America's Forgotten Heroes - the Coal Miner."
The last papers will be presented Saturday morning starting at 8:30 by Eugene Huddleston, East Lansing, Mich., on "George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the New River"; Kenneth Bailey, Montgomery, W.Va., "West Virginia and the Alien Contract Law, 1907-13"; William Grafton, Morgantown, "Plants of Gauley, Meadow and Bluestone Rivers"; R.T. Hill, Athens, W.Va., "Destruction of the Mercer Salt Works: a New River Civil War Skirmish"; John Nicely, Morgantown, "Trump-Lilly Farm - Early 20th Century Subsistence Farming in the New River Uplands"; and Rhonda Catron, Wytheville, "Gayheart: Life and Culture of Appalachia."
Registration, including symposium materials, four refreshment breaks, the dinner and conference field trips, is $55. Single-day fees are $20 for Thursday (including the reception), $35 Friday (including the dinner) and $10 Saturday. Additional dinner tickets are $14.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB