BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Office of Sustainability - ECPv6.3.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Office of Sustainability X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Office of Sustainability REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200430T110000 DTSTAMP:20240328T064540 CREATED:20201007T164310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T214454Z UID:14999-1588240800-1588244400@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:The Story of Major Harper & Betsy Scott: Pebble Hill's African-American Family Legacy DESCRIPTION:Shari L. Williams\, a graduate assistant at the Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities will be joined by Dr. Terrance Vickerstaff\, family historian and descendant of Major Harper and Betsy Scott.\nThey will discuss Pebble Hill’s African-American family legacy through the story of Major Harper and Betsy Scott in a free broadcast live from Pebble Hill in Auburn. \nPebble Hill\, also known as the Scott-Yarbrough House\, is an 1847 Greek Revival cottage in Auburn\, Alabama listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It currently serves as the home of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. \nShari L. Williams is a doctoral candidate in Auburn University’s Department of History. Her research interests include the past\, present and future of historic rural landscapes\, traditions\, and sites in Alabama's Black Belt with a focus on the intersection of rural historic landscapes and social history through the lens of race\, gender\, and class. She is the founder and executive director of The Ridge\, a local interpretative center focused on the history of the Federal Road through Macon County\, multicultural migration\, and rural community development.\n
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