Following are the locations for each day's activities.
Tuesday, July 21
Workforce Center, Eastern Shore Community College (ESCC)
29300 Lankford Highway
Melfa, Virginia 23410
Telephone: 757-787-5900
http://www.es.vccs.edu/about_escc/map_and_directions.html
Wednesday, July 22
Buses leave Holiday Inn Express and Best Western Inn for an agriculture tour of the Eastern Shore
Thursday, July 23
Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center
33446 Research Drive
Painter, VA 23420-2827
http://arecs.vaes.vt.edu/arec.cfm?webname=painter
Travel Information: For participants who are driving to the Eastern Shore from Virginia, please note that there is a $12 toll (one way for two axle, four tire vehicles) via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Toll lanes only accept EZ Pass and cash (checks or credit cards require a visit to the office). For more information see the website at http://www.cbbt.com/index.html.
Lodging
The Eastern shore is a rural and historic tourism area, so please make your hotel room reservations as soon as possible. No public ground transportation is available between the airports and conference hotels. Rental cars are the best option. Norfolk International Airport is the closest airport and is an hour and a half drive to the conference location. Other possible airports include the Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport or Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport, Maryland. Blocks of rooms are being held at the following hotels. The rooms will be held until the blocks are full or until June 22, 2009.
Holiday Inn Express, Exmore, VA
- http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/exrva
- Phone: 757-442-5522
- Hot buffet breakfast included.
- Request the $70/night VT Southern Conservation Meeting Group block. This is also the State Government Rate.
- Enterprise car rental location.
Best Western Eastern Shore Inn, Exmore, VA
- http://www.easternshoreinn.com/
- Phone: 757-442-7378
- Continental breakfast included.
- Request the $70/night VT Southern Conservation Meeting Group block. This is also the State Government Rate.
About the Eastern Shore - www.esvatourism.org
This tiny peninsula is the last pristine stretch on the East Coast where the bay meets the sea, watermen till the tides, and family farms stretch lush and green. From Colonial times to the present, agriculture has been the mainstay of the Eastern Shore economy. Early farmers grew tobacco and later turned to livestock, some of which freely grazed on the seaside barrier islands. Farms have evolved, and the Eastern Shore currently serves as Virginia's epicenter for fiber, grain, and vegetable crops as well as aquaculture. Wild Chincoteague ponies run free by the sea and the string of natural barrier islands look the same as when Native Americans first harvested the bay's oysters.
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