Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library recently issued the following announcement.
Event Name: 7-22-2021: Towles Tales and Growing up in Rural Lancaster (Will Towles)
Date: July 22, 2021
Cost: $0.00 - $5.00
Description
NEW DATE: JULY 22, 2021 (rescheduled from June 17 due to technical difficulties that prevented the speaker from joining).
REGISTRATION FOR LIVE ZOOM CLOSES AT NOON ON DAY OF PROGRAM. Choose your Registration Category: Free for LVHS Members; $5 for Public (non-members). You will get a Square receipt immediately after your transaction here. The Zoom link will be separately emailed to you before the event. If registering for more than one person, please provide the additional names and email addresses in the comment box.
Part of LVHS "Zooming in on Local History" virtual speaker series by Zoom webinar. William H. “Will” Towles, Jr. will talk about the Towles family which has been in Lancaster since 1711 and share stories of his childhood and rural life in the 1950s-60s in the upper county areas of Beach Creek and Towles Point on the Rappahannock River. He will reflect on topics such as family history, women’s roles, connections to the land and water, the general store in the community, and activities of oyster tonging, crabbing, and picking tomatoes.
Will Towles grew up in Beach Creek off Chowning’s Ferry Road, spent summers and weekends there during his adult life as an English teacher and college counselor at Trinity Episcopal School in Richmond for 33 years, and returned after retiring about 15 years ago. His father, William H. “Bill” Towles, Sr., was a waterman and later an oyster inspector. His mother Lillian Houle Towles, was a teacher in Lively and Northumberland County for around 30 years. Towles Point House, now in ruins, was the home of seven generations of Will’s ancestors from 1711 to 1933. Relatives continued to own property at the Point and Will often spent time there with his cousins.
Original source can be found here
Source: Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library
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