OLLI at West Virginia University
Winter Term 2012
Getting Out of Town:
Morgantown's Interstate Connections
Instructor: Wallace Venable
Friday, 10:00 am - 11:50 am Classroom A - Mountaineer Mall
January 20, 27, February 3, 1 7, 24
Course description: This course offers a historical survey of the
routes out of - and into - Morgantown: paths and streams, the rise
and fall of wagon roads, riverboats, and railroads, with a nod to
interstate highways and the airport, of course. It has never been
easy to leave Morgantown, but it keeps getting easier.
This page serves as an e-handout, and provides links to
supplementary resources.
Class 1 - "PowerPoint"
presentation as .PDF file ( 17 MB )
Class 2 - "PowerPoint"
presentation as .PDF file ( 9.5 MB )
Class 3 - "PowerPoint"
presentation as .PDF file ( 20.1 MB )
Class 4- "PowerPoint" presentation
as .PDF file ( 10.3 MB )
- Zadok Cramer's The
Navigator can be read
page by page at two sites:
Class 2 - "PowerPoint" presentation as .PDF file ( ?? MB )
