Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990 TAG: 9007200073
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE LENGTH: Short
There is no admission charge. The committee suggests that viewers bring their own lawn chairs to the park.
More than 100 men, women and children from the county will have roles in the drama, which unfolds in both story and music. It ranges from the time of the Indians through the colonial and Revolutionary War period up to the Roaring '20s, both world wars and events of recent years.
Joe Carlson-Mayes will play the lead role of George Wythe, the statesman, law professor and signer of the Declaration of Independence for whom the county was named. Wythe appears throughout the drama as a statue come to life to see what has happened to the county named for him.
Members of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Company C, and the 8th Virginia Battalion Infantry Reserves will re-enact Toland's Raid on Wytheville during the Civil War part of the play.
Janice Scudder, associate professor of speech at Wytheville Community College, is directing the play. Annie B. Crockett-Stark, pageant committee chairman, is its administrative director. Mary Woods is the music director and Margaret L. Booker, choreographer.
The outdoor drama is one of dozens of events and activities held this year in celebration of the county's bicentennial. Wythe County was formed in 1790 from Montgomery County.
- Southwest bureau
by CNB