UNC Hosts Guided Walking Tours

by Missy Julian-Fox | September 26 2011

The Visitors’ Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is offering a new series of free tours for the public. Tours in the “Priceless Gem Series,” (which takes its name from a line in the UNC alma mater “Hark the Sound”) will be given most Fridays at 3 p.m., starting from UNC Visitors’ Center, located inside Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, 250 E. Franklin St.

University experts are leading these distinctive walking tours on various topics of interest. From archeology to architecture to today’s sustainability issues, tours will offer a range of information and perspective.

Here is the schedule for the tours for the remainder of the Fall semester:

Sept. 30, Cemetery tour, led by Stephen Rich, Chapel Hill Preservation Society
Oct. 7, Coker Arboretum, led by natural science educator, N.C. Botanical Garden
Oct. 14, Carolina classic historical tour, led by Missy Julian-Fox, Visitors’ Center director
Oct. 28, The Noble Grove: A Walking Tour of Trees, led by Tom Bythell, UNC campus forest manager with Jill Coleman, UNC landscape architect
Nov. 4, sustainability tour, led by Cindy Shea, director of the UNC Sustainability Office, and UNC student EcoReps
Nov. 18, archaeology tour, led by Meg Kassabaum, research assistant, Research Labs of Archaeology
Dec. 2, architecture, led by Wendy Hillis, UNC historic preservationist

For information, the UNC Visitors’ Center contact is Missy Julian-Fox or call (919) 962-1630.

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