{"id":31131,"date":"2013-05-17T02:31:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T02:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31131"},"modified":"2013-05-19T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:00:44","slug":"news-release-lectures-in-edenton-and-raleigh-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31131","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chowan Discovery Group<\/a>
\n2013-05-15<\/p>\n

Marvin T. Jones<\/a><\/strong>, Executive Director<\/p>\n

This weekend, the Winton Triangle\u2019s history will be presented at special events in Edenton<\/a> and Raleigh<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0On 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.
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\nThe next day, Saturday, May 18, Jones recounts the Winton Triangle role in the Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0 The venue is the United States Colored Troop Symposium at the North Carolina History Museum<\/a> in Raleigh.\u00a0 Jones will be speaking at 2:30pm.
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\nThe Winton Triangle is the 260 year-old landowning community of color that traverses the triangle formed by Winton<\/a>, Ahoskie<\/a> and Cofield<\/a>.\u00a0 In the past year, the Chowan Discovery Group (http:\/\/www.chowandiscovery.org\/<\/a>) has made presentations in New York City, Chicago, Greensboro, Durham and Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the venues were the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a> at DePaul University where Jones hosted two panels about Roanoke-Chowan and Appalachian mixed race peoples.\u00a0 Other occasions were three Winton Triangle presentations at the African American Genealogical and Historical Society Conference in Greensboro<\/a>.\u00a0 Since the April 2012 erection and dedication of the Robert L. Vann Marker<\/a> in Ahoskie, Marvin Jones has given three radio interviews about Vann and the Winton Triangle.\u00a0 Internet links to these interviews are found on the Chowan Discovery website (“Presentations”).<\/p>\n

For more information about the upcoming lectures, contact the Chowan Discovery Group at 202.726.4066 or info@chowandiscovery.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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