Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 16, 1994                   TAG: 9403160020
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Staff reports
DATELINE: ABINGDON                                LENGTH: Short

SOUTHWEST VA. SUBJECT OF APRIL 2 SYMPOSIUM

The keynote address will be by Appalachian scholar Ronald Eller of the University of Kentucky, whose book "Miners, Millhands and Mountaineers: The Industrialization of the Appalachian South" was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Jean Haskell Speer, director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University, will give a luncheon address on "The Culture of Southwest Virginia in a Global Context."

Another participant will be Crandall Shifflett, professor of history at Virginia Tech, who has published books on life in Appalachia.

Registration will start at 8:30 a.m. The fee, including lunch, is $12; lunch reservations must be made by March 25. Meeting registrations will be accepted at the door, or can be sent in advance to Edwin Hardison, Dean of Instruction and Student Services, VHCC, P.O. Box 828, Abingdon, Va. 24210.