Students Attend Belle Grove Seminar On Local History
About 40 students and teachers from Frederick Clarke Warren and Shenandoah counties joined a day long seminar at Belle Grove Midletown a National Trust property. The program featured archivists from the Virginia State Library University of Virginia and Belle Grove staff guiding a cataloging effort of 300 plus documents including James Wood diary Jefferson letter and Miller memorandum. Clean Valley Day closed Virginia Improved Environment Week with free house tours in exchange for highway litter pickup.
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Frederick, Clarke, Warren
Shenandoahounties
Belle Grove
Middletown
National Trust For Historic Preservation
National Trust
Virginia
John Dudley
Virginia State Library
Richmond
Edmund Berkeley, Jr
University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville
Patricia Williams
Washington
George M. Smith
Shenandoah Valley
Winchester
Commencement Exercise Dedicated to Mourning at Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan held a mourning commencement honoring six Kent State and Jackson State deaths. About 1,000 gathered in Riverside Church for dimmed lights and Ligeti Volumina, with readings from Lamentations and the crowd singing The Sound of Silence.
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NEW York
Horrow
Union Theological Seminary
Kent State University
Ohio
Jackson State College
Jackson
Miss
Manhattan
Riverside
Gyorgy Ligeti
Cloth Makers Seek Import Quotas in Textile Bill
The American Textile Manufacturers Institute urged quota legislation on textile imports. Donald Feeene of Collins & Aikman testified to the House Ways and Means Committee, saying the market faces floods of imports from countries with no obligation to American workers or communities. The industry notes a 59,000 job loss in about a year and investment cuts. Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing the first swim fins made of wood.
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Washington
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
Donald F.eeene
Collins & Aikman New York
Institute
House
Ways and Means
McCullough
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