News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend |
News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend
Chowan Discovery Group
2013-05-15
Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director
This weekend, the Winton Triangle’s history will be presented at special events in Edenton and Raleigh. On the morning of Friday, May 17, the town of Edenton is observing its 300th anniversary. Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group, is one of two speakers lecturing on Edenton area history.
The next day, Saturday, May 18, Jones recounts the Winton Triangle role in the Civil War. The venue is the United States Colored Troop Symposium at the North Carolina History Museum in Raleigh. Jones will be speaking at 2:30pm.
The Winton Triangle is the 260 year-old landowning community of color that traverses the triangle formed by Winton, Ahoskie and Cofield. In the past year, the Chowan Discovery Group (http://www.chowandiscovery.org/) has made presentations in New York City, Chicago, Greensboro, Durham and Washington, D.C.
Among the venues were the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University where Jones hosted two panels about Roanoke-Chowan and Appalachian mixed race peoples. Other occasions were three Winton Triangle presentations at the African American Genealogical and Historical Society Conference in Greensboro. Since the April 2012 erection and dedication of the Robert L. Vann Marker in Ahoskie, Marvin Jones has given three radio interviews about Vann and the Winton Triangle. Internet links to these interviews are found on the Chowan Discovery website (“Presentations”).
For more information about the upcoming lectures, contact the Chowan Discovery Group at 202.726.4066 or info@chowandiscovery.org.
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