Passport to the Past: Sweet Briar hosts Explore weekend for Young Women in High School

Lynn Rainville, director of the Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar College will be leading a "Passport to the Past" weekend on October 6-7, 2017 for high school students.  This program will feature archaeology and joins other "Explore" weekends scheduled throughout the year that focus on engineering, environment, and other topics.

This first Explore Archaeology weekend will begin with basic questions: How does an archaeologist locate sites to excavate? How do architectural historians date a building? How do public historians share information about the lives of people in the past?

Rainville notes that participants will focus on Sweet Briar and that the college's "…3,250 acres of breathtaking beauty and nature also contain a multitude of artifacts, ruins and neo-classical architecture…These features reveal Sweet Briar’s rich, multi-century heritage.”

The Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar isa historic preservation resource center, dedicated to preserving and studying the region's historic assets within a context of environmental stewardship.  The institute's web pages include links to a wide variety of interesting resources.

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