Brocks Gap Heritage Day

33rd annual Brocks Gap Heritage Day, featuring history and culture of the communities of Bergton, Criders, and Fulks Run in Rockingham County.

Over 180 posters of vintage photographs feature families, churches, communities, schools, and other topics. Pat Turner Ritchie's personal library of family, local and regional histories can be used for research.

Other researchers will be there to share their material, gather new information, and sell their books. Donations for memorial stones for the Dove and local family cemeteries are welcome.

Rocktown History, Plains District Memorial Museum, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Chimney Rock VFW representatives will attend.

Three special programs during the day:
11:00 "Who Threw Rocks in the Garden?" Exploring Family History through Court Records. by Chaz Haywood, Clerk of Court,
and Megan Pullen, Deputy Clerk.

12:30 Forrest Elwood Fulk; An unreported Rockingham County hero, by Joe T. May, former Virginia State Delegate

2:00 Forest Forensics: Finding Clues to the Past in our Woods Today, by Chris Bolgiano, former JMU Special Collections Librarian

Heritage Day is free and is sponsored by the Ritchie & Turner families. For more information, contact Pat Turner Ritchie, cGF0cml0Y2hpZSB8IHZlcml6b24gISBuZXQ=.

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