HINTON (Hinton News) – The City of Hinton and Active SWV would like to invite everyone to join us in our first-ever Follow the River Walk from Hinton to the Richmond Hamilton Farm on Saturday, September 17, 2022. The walk will follow the New River as Mary Ingles did in her quest to escape the Shawnee Indians and return home to her family in Draper Meadows, Virginia. Registration will take place at the Explore Summers County Visitors Center starting at 1:30 p.m., with the walk beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Active SWV Captains will lead the two-mile walk along the New River Road to the Richmond Hamilton Farm where light refreshments will be served, and Park Rangers will tell the tale of Mary Ingles’s capture and escape in 1755, along with providing information on sustenance farming. Following the return walk to town, everyone is invited to have dinner on their own, then join the City of Hinton in viewing the made-for-TV movie, Follow the River, for free in the City Park, at 7:30 p.m. Everyone should bring a chair to better enjoy viewing the movie.
(Should inclement weather occur, the movie will be shown at the Historic Freight Depot instead of the City Park.)
This is a free event for the community.
