Mark Your Calendars - 1996 Train and River Trips


April 13-21, 1996 The Center's inaugural private rail trip across America aboard the American Orient Express. Stops include Washington, D.C.; Charlottesville, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; San Antonio, Texas; Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Los Angeles, California. Proposed lectures include a history of train travel in the United States, Westward expansion and the rush for gold, the evolution of jazz, Jefferson's Virginia, Native Americans of the Southwest, and Sam Houston's Texas.

September 18-26, 1996 Arkansas River voyage from Memphis to Tulsa on the Delta Queen. Preliminary itinerary includes stops in Memphis, Tennessee; four Arkansas sites-Pine Bluff, Little Rock, Petit Jean Mountain, and Fort Smith-plus Muskogee and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

For information on either of these trips, call PVA Travel Planning at 800-795-5700.

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