Hill School Discussion with VT Professor Dan Thorp
Venue: Blacksburg Library, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library, Montgomery County Public Information Office, Raymond Bishop, representing the Hill School Board, and Dan Thorp, Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech, are partnering to create a documentary about the Hill School.

Please join us and contribute your memories and stories at a discussion planned for Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012, 10:00 – 12:00 noon at the Blacksburg Library community room. Light refreshments will be provided.

Dan will begin with a brief history of the Hill School followed by stories by all who attend. The discussion will be filmed as a part of the documentary. The completed documentary will be used in various library programs, distributed to schools and will serve as a fundraising tool for the Hill School.

The Hill School was organized by Capt. Charles Schaeffer, a Freedmen’s Bureau agent, soon after his arrival to the area in 1866. It was the first private African American school in Southwest Virginia, according to Hill School documents.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or call: 540-552-8246.

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