Around the Region for March 4

Parkinson to discuss latest book Tuesday

SHEPHERDSTOWN – As part of its free lecture series, the Scarborough Society of Shepherd University will sponsor a program featuring Shepherd’s faculty member Dr. Robert Parkinson at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Scarborough Library reading room. Parkinson will discuss his new book, “The Common Cause: Race, Nation, and the Consequences of Unity in the American Revolution.” A reception will follow the lecture. The program and reception are free and open to the public.

Parkinson is a tenured associate professor of history at Shepherd and the first recipient of the Ray and Madeline Johnston Endowed Chair in American History. The author of a number of scholarly essays and articles about the Revolution and the Founding Fathers, Parkinson now studies the racial differences that emerged from the Revolution and the way war and politics played a role in that emergence in “The Common Cause: Race, Nation, and the Consequences of Unity in the American Revolution.” The manuscript is Parkinson’s first and was published by the North Carolina Press, whose books have won five Bancroft Prizes, as well as a Pulitzer Prize.

The Scarborough Society is a friends of the library organization established in 2002 by the Shepherd University Foundation. Annual membership dues help support library acquisitions, technology, and programs. Membership is open to all interested supporters of the Scarborough Library.

For more information about the lecture series or the Scarborough Society, contact the Shepherd University Foundation at 304-876-5397 or visit www.shepherd.edu/fndtn/scarborough-society.

Planning Commission meeting canceled

MARTINSBURG – The regularly scheduled March meeting of the Martinsburg Planning Commission has been canceled because there are no cases to be heard. The Planning Commission usually meets at 6 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month in the J. Oakley Seibert Council Chambers, city hall, 232 N. Queen St.

For more information, call 304-264-2131, ext. 266.

Audubon Society to host birding trip

SHEPHERDSTOWN – The Potomac Valley Audubon Society will sponsor a birding trip Tuesday in Jefferson County. The trip is free and anyone with an interest is welcome to come along, regardless of their birding skills. Children will be welcome. No preregistration is required.

Full details can be found on the PVAS website at www.potomacaudubon.org.

  • Wednesday: Bird walk in the South Schoolhouse Ridge Battlefield section of the Harpers Ferry National Park. Will last two to three hours and involve about three miles of walking through woods and fields, with some hilly terrain. Likely species include winter visitors and year-round birds like woodpeckers and raptors. Meet at 8 a.m. the South Schoolhouse Ridge parking area. From U.S. 340 west of Harpers Ferry, turn south onto Millville Road (County Route 27) at the outdoor flea market; proceed 2 miles to parking area. If the gate is closed, pull off and park along the road.

For more information, email Deb Hale at debhale72@gmail.com or call 304-535-2346.
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