Harper’s Ferry Trip
Sep 20th, 2007 by Marie McAllister
Busses will leave at 8AM on Saturday, October 6, from College Street just outside Seacobeck. (The Dining Hall opens at 7:15 if you’d like to catch breakfast before we go.) We will be back on campus no later than 6pm. The drive both ways should be beautiful, with the fall colors reaching their peak as we go further into the mountains.
Once at Harper’s Ferry, you can design your own tour depending on your interests. We’ll start in the park headquarters to pick up maps, then fan out to the many attractions: the Lower Town (a restored 19th-century village), Virginius Island (the well-preserved ruins of a thriving 19th-century industrial town), Bolivar Heights and its spectacular views of the Harpers Ferry Water Gap, Schoolhouse Ridge and other civil war battle sites, the C&O Canal, and others. At noon we’ll regroup for a (reasonably good!) box lunch from Seacobeck. At one o’clock, you can hear a presentation by a well-known living history reenactor who portrays the even-better-known Abraham Lincoln, or you can continue touring on your own. There are many hiking trails available for the intrepid, and of course great views in many directions.
To learn more about Harper’s Ferry National Park, visit http://www.nps.gov/hafe/.
To go on this trip, you need to have signed up and filled out the form . . . email Dr. M. at mmcallis at umw.edu if you haven’t already done both.