APRIL 22-23, 1995                  "PATHWAYS TO AMERICAN CULTURE"
 
A Conference on Transportation and Settlement Patterns in the United States
 
The Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West
Virginia University is sponsoring a two day conference covering topics ranging
from transportation and community, the 19th century internal improvements
movement, the Indian trails to river channels, ending with a panel discussion
on the uses of history by national parks, heritage corridors, and projects
documenting historic engineering structures.  Speakers will include John Mack
Faragher of Yale University, John Lauritz Larson of Purdue University, Arthur
Gomez of the National Park Service, Sante Fe, New Mexico, and Michal McMahon
of West Virginia University.  The event will be in Wheeling, West Virginia,
terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and site of such historic structures
as the Ellet-Poebling suspension bridge.  For information, contact Michal
McMahon, IHTIA, West Virginia University, 1535 Mileground, Morgantown, WV
26505-6305.  Phone: (304) 293-2421, ext. 5242; E-mail [log in to unmask]
Larry N. Sypolt
Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26505-6305
Phone: (304) 293-3704     Fax: (304) 293-2449
Internet: [log in to unmask]
Bitnet: LSYPOLT@wvnvm