FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 15, 2008
Contact: Joshua Hollis
(662) 329-7119

jhollis@pa.muw.edu

Crawford to speak Sunday at MUW's Plymouth Bluff Center

COLUMBUS, Miss. – The Tombigbee Chapter of the Mississippi Archeological Association and Mississippi University for Women’s Plymouth Bluff Center will sponsor “The Archaeological Conservancy: Preserving Sites in Mississippi” at the Plymouth Bluff Center this Sunday at 2 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.

The presentation will feature Jessica Crawford, southeast regional director of the Archaeological Conservancy. Crawford oversees management of Conservancy properties in eight states and the acquisition of new sites. The program will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Plymouth Bluff Center, and is free and open to the public.

She has received a Resolution of Commendation from the Mississippi Department of Archives & History for her assistance on numerous archaeological excavations in Mississippi and has served as state president of the Mississippi Archaeological Association.

For more information about the program, call 662-241-6214.