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The Blue Ridge Parkway boasts the most diverse range of flora and fauna in the entire National Park Service system. Photo by Ben Geer Keys
Dates
December 4, 3:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Cost
Free
Contact
National Park Service
Betsy Haynes
540.721.2094
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Location
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Booker T. Washington National Monument, 12130 BTW Highway Hardy VA, 24101
Celebrate a mid-nineteenth century Christmas on the Burroughs piedmont Virginia tobacco plantation. The monument is the birthplace of Booker T. Washington, noted African American educator, orator, author, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Listen to costumed interpreters talk about the plantation and learn the contrasting stories of Christmas celebrations of the slaves and slave owners.
