Bedford grad on Nat Geo s Race to the Center of the Earth
Bedford grad on Nat Geo s Race to the Center of the Earth
It’s October 2019, and James Batey is standing on the Mã Pí Lèng Pass, in the Dong Van District of Vietnam.
The 2002 Bedford High School graduate is enamored with the rugged scenery around him. He could easily spend days just wandering through the quiet farming villages nestled into the valleys below, or gawking at the limestone formations and towering peaks overhead.
But Batey doesn’t have minutes to spare, let alone days. He’s about to begin a very important, possibly lucrative race, one that will stretch him and his two teammates to their absolute physical and mental limits.
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Race to the Center of the Earth pits four teams of three against one another in a sprint across the globe for a $1M prize. Each group will start from a different corner of the Earth – South America, Russia, Canada and Southeast Asia – racing to win the bounty. They face untamed jungles, frozen arctic, arid deserts, bustling cities, treacherous mountains and vast oceans to reach the location where all four routes intersect and the first team to arrive at the buoy claims it all.
Smock returns to Byrd Center as interim director
By Tabitha Johnston - Chronicle Staff | Feb 5, 2021
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SHEPHERDSTOWN Monday morning dawned bright and early for Ray Smock, as he began his first day back-on-the-job as Robert C. Byrd Center director in over two-and-a-half years.
Thankfully for both him and his fellow staff member, Director of Education and Outreach Jody Brumage, those years of retirement weren’t spent in leisure. Smock has remained active in the life of the Byrd Center, as a member of its Board of Directors.
“When Ray retired in 2018, the Byrd Center was already two years into a significant transition that began when we changed our name from the Center for Legislative Studies to the Center for Congressional History and Education and adopted our new mission in early 2016,” Brumage said. “Under the leadership of Jay Wyatt as director, we refined the center’s execution of its mission, by placing emphasis on educational outreach, rooted in the foundatio
SHEPHERDSTOWN Jay Wyatt walked through the doors of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education for the last time as its director on Fr
Striving for Civil Rights: Byrd Center produces series of lectures on Black American history
By Tabitha Johnston - Chronicle Staff | Jan 22, 2021
The Robert C. Byrd Center has produced a series of six lectures exploring Black Americans struggle to overcome systemic racism and achieve racial equality. Tabitha Johnston
SHEPHERDSTOWN Ninety-two years ago this Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born. His assassination at the age of 39, in Memphis, Tenn., may have ended his work as a civil rights leader, but it did not prevent his legacy from continuing to change the face of the United States.
That unshakeable legacy led to the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1983. While in years past, the holiday has been celebrated with festivals and parades across the country, the COVID-19 Pandemic forced this year’s event planners to alter the annual celebrations, in consideration of social distancing guidelines.