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From: "Don Silvius" <>
Subject: Shenandoah County Heritage Day 2006
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:58:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: <DEEGKFCCKHLLNGPAMMJCEEAHCJAA.dsilvius@adelphia.net>


A reminder that the fourth annual Shenandoah County Heritage Day is Saturday
April 8, at the Edinburg Fire Hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Exhibitors will include

Jim Artz - Artz family
Mary Byrd Blackwell - 1850 signature quilt, Rhodes and Miley families,
Eutsler photographer
Daniel W. Bly - author, historian
Camp Roosevelt CCC Legacy Foundation - Joan Sharpe
Edinburg Heritage Foundation
Lena Fuller - land grant maps
Fern Lytton - living history
Linda Varney - Quicksburg boards and notebook
Martha Baker Jones - Quicksburg
Ceryn Land - Hockman, Kelley
Ruth Reedy and Sue Reedy Propst - Reedy, Comer, Lloyd, Baker families
Shenandoah County Historical Society - Morrison photographs, books, etc.
Shenandoah County Library - books, books and more books!
Shenandoah Preservation League - Meg Trott
Fort Valley Museum - Jim Trott
Jean Whetzel - Miley family
Woodstock Museum
Hottel Keller Memorial, Inc.
Jane Mitakides - copies
Rob Andrews - Zirkle Mill, Forestville
Lynnie Sager - Alley Blackford memorial
Betty Robinson Himes - Dodson, Robinson, Baker, Dyke & Spiker families
Elmore Bowman - author "Until I Left Home" (Hamburg, Virginia)
Franklin Zirkle - Zirkle family, Conestoga Wagons
Robert Back - Swann family, copies
Don Silvius - 1896 Weatherholtz murder, Silvious and Mowery families,
America's pastime

Guest speakers (in the conference room):
11:30 a.m. - Don Silvius: life in the 1880's and 1890's
1:30 p.m. - Daniel Bly: early Quicksburg families

This list is subject to change.

We have put together a LOT of information on Quicksburg. If your family is
from that area, chances are we have something that interests you.

Admission is free, so if you're in the area, stop by, and don't forget to
bring your old photos, family Bibles, letters, etc., so we can digitally
copy them and file the copies in the Shenandoah Room at the Shenandoah
County Library.

Don Silvius
Coordinator
Shenandoah County GenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html


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