
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 20, 1990                   TAG: 9003202560
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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IVANHOE BOOK SALES BEGIN BY SOUTHWEST BUREAU

IVANHOE - The line stretched all the way through the Ivanhoe Technical Education Center and out onto its porch Sunday afternoon when a 255-page history of the Ivanhoe community went on sale.

Nearly 100 people showed up for the first copies of "Remembering Our Past - Building Our Future," compiled by the Ivanhoe Civic League. It is a hefty 8 1/2-by-11-inch paperbound volume that sells for $15, and many of the buyers lined up for multiple copies.

The first book was presented to Osa Kegley Price, who had continued to run the M.M. Price store in Ivanhoe until last April when it was destroyed by fire. Civic League President Maxine Waller said the store - kept open by Price after the death of her husband - had been a community center for Ivanhoe, which lies on the Wythe-Carroll county border.

Coordinators for the book project were Dickie Jefferson of Ivanhoe; Helen Lewis, a teacher and sociologist whose Wytheville Community College class at Ivanhoe Tech took on the project; and Suzanna O'Donnell of St. Paul. It contains about 60 interviews and 250 photographs among its material.

The book is available from the Ivanhoe Civic League, P.O. Box 201, Ivanhoe 24350 (telephone 699-1383). Mail orders cost $5 more.

by CNB