Science Saturday at Stratford Hall: The Stratford Hall Whale and the Fossil Record

  • Sat, Aug 14, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Eastern Standard Time

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Description

Join Education and Outreach Manager Jon Bachman as he shares the discovery of an extinct baleen whale skeleton found in the cliffs at Stratford Hall in 2013 and how this discovery offers a glimpse into the vast fossil record of the Earth. Fossils of whales now provide one of the most complete examples of ongoing evolution.  The Stratford Hall whale has provided another piece in the pageant of life on Earth.

Tune in for Science Saturday and explore the amazing world of fossils! 

Virtual program via Zoom. 

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Registration is required. We invite you to pay as you wish to support lectures like this and future programs at Stratford Hall. A contribution can be made online with your registration or by mail to the following address: Development, Stratford Hall, 483 Great House Road, Stratford, VA 22558.

Free for Friends of Stratford.

After registering for the webinar, attendees will receive an automated confirmation email with connection instructions. We program will take place via Zoom, which is available for free download here: https://zoom.us/download.

Date & Time

Sat, Aug 14, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Inc.

Stratford Hall brings together people from around the world to experience two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can all learn from the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. There are few places in America where people can travel down small, rural roads to arrive at a vast site that preserves so many aspects of early-American life, from the Great House where the influential Lee family helped to forge a new nation, to the fields worked by enslaved Africans, to the waters of the rivers that fueled trade, to the ground, which still yields secrets about the people and animals that lived before.

Come experience this extraordinary place and learn about a layered history that began millions of years ago - a history that continues to educate, inspire, and influence Americans to the present day.


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