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UNC Visitors’ Center to launch ‘Priceless Gems’ tours on Friday E-mail
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Visitors’ Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will begin offering a new series of free tours for the public on Friday (Sept. 16). Tours in the “Priceless Gems” series, which takes its name from a line in the UNC alma mater, “Hark the Sound,” will be given most Fridays at 3 p.m., starting inside Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, 250 E. Franklin St.  

University experts will lead these distinctive walking tours on various topics of interest. From archeology to architecture to the African-American experience and today’s sustainability issues, tours will offer a range of information and perspective.

Here is the schedule for the tours planned for this fall:

 

  • Sept. 16, architecture, led by Wendy Hillis, UNC historic preservationist
  • Sept. 23, “Black and Blue” tour of UNC’s historical landmarks in context of UNC’s racial history, led by Tim McMillan, adjunct assistant professor in the African and Afro-American studies department
  • Sept. 30, cemetery, led by Stephen Rich, Chapel Hill Preservation Society
  • Oct. 7, Coker Arboretum, led by Grant Parkins, natural science educator, N.C. Botanical Garden
  • Oct. 14, Carolina classic historical tour, led by Missy Julian-Fox, Visitors’ Center director
  • Oct. 28, trees
  • Nov. 4, sustainability, led by Cindy Shea, director of the UNC Sustainability Office, and UNC student EcoReps
  • Nov. 18, archaeology, led by Meg Kassabaum, research assistant, Research Labs of Archaeology
  • Dec. 2, architecture, led by Wendy Hillis, UNC historic preservationist

Visitors’ Center contact: Missy Julian Fox, (919) 962-1630, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it