>From Keat Sparrow. Sounds like a great weekend. >Martha, > >The John Lawson Symposium will be held at ECU from October 18--20 in >celebration of the 300th anniversary of Lawson's trek through South Carolina >and North Carolina. The symposium is going to be very exciting in that >people from SC have retraced his steps in their state and people from ECU >have retraced his steps in NC, and both groups have identified in >contemporary terms where the key places are that he describes in his book. >The ones from ECU have also identifed the site of Hannah Smith's father's >house--on a knoll on the north side of the Tar River, just north of the >bridge on the road leading from Grimesland to Highway 264E (the four lane >from Greenville to Washington). In other words, Hannah's father lived only >14 to 20 miles upriver from Bath where Lawson himself settled with Hannah. > > >I hope you can attend the symposium. It'll be most informative. And I'd be >very grateful if you'd help us by publicizing it on the Net. > >Keats >