Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 13, 1992 TAG: 9203130102
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The Highland Maple Festival, in and around scenic Monterey in Highland County, will be Saturday and Sunday and next weekend, March 21-22.
As usual, it will include tours of maple sugar camps; visits to the Maple Museum and gift shops; plus foods, from maple-flavored doughnuts and mountain trout to pancakes and barbecued chicken. Also: clogging, storytelling, bluegrass and country music and crafts.
Information is yours from 468-2550.
The Whitetop Maple Festival will be March 21-22 and 28-29 in and around Whitetop and Mount Rogers. It, too, will have a tapping tour, pancake meals, arts, crafts and music from the mountains, plus storytelling and wildflower slides. Proceeds benefit the Mount Rogers Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad. Call 388-3283 in the mornings for information.\
WORDS, WORDS: Annie Dillard. Lee Smith. Jeanne Larsen. These are but a few of the well-known authors who will be present for the Literary Festival and Creative Writing Reunion on Saturday at Hollins College in Roanoke.
Registration begins at 9:30 in Main Building, where Doris Dorrie, Germany's top filmmaker, and David Adams Richards, a distinguished Canadian author, will read, as will graduates of the Hollins creative writing program.
"Elvis in Oz," a collection of new stories and poems by Hollins writers, will be on sale. A book signing with the authors will be at 11:30 Saturday morning in Botetourt Hall.
The festival is free and open to all.\
YO! YOU IN THE GREEN! St. Patrick's Day celebrations start in Roanoke with a warm-up party from 5 to 8 this evening at Century Plaza - or the Market Building if the weather won't cooperate.
Admission will be a buck. You'll get live music and lively refreshments, and the proceeds will benefit Trust, the Roanoke Valley Trouble Center.
On Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day itself, WROV-FM will sponsor a Rock around the Block parade starting at 5:30 next to Dominion Tower. Authentic Irish music will mark the pace.
Tuesday night at 7:30, No Strings Attached and Second Wynde will perform Irish music at Ryan Hall of Roanoke Catholic Schools, up on the hill. Admission is $5, with proceeds benefitting Roanoke Catholic. Tickets are on sale at the school and at the Fret Mill on the Roanoke City Market.
And Saturday, a distance race called the Shamrock Hill 5K will begin at 9 o'clock at North Jefferson Street and Patton Avenue. Entry fee is $10 before Tuesday and $12 after that.\
IT'S THE LATEST: Composer Gilbert Trythall will talk about technology and the arts in a lecture-recital Wednesday night at 8 in Radford University's Preston Hall. Soprano Janis Peri will join him in performance of synthesizer compositions such as "The Twelve Deadly Sins" and "The Egyptian Book of the Dead." Trythall is author of "Principles and Practice of Electronic Music."
Thursday night at 8, also in Preston Hall, Radford music faculty and the Radford Singers will present music of George Crumb, Ned Rorem, Charles Ives and David Diamond, plus a new work by Bruce Mahin, director of the school's Center for Music Technology.\
TIMELESS TALENT: Franz Schubert's Mass No. 6 in E Flat Major will be presented Sunday afternoon at 4 by chorus, soloists and orchestra for the Fine Arts Series of the Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in downtown Roanoke.
Admission is free, though an offering will be taken. Call 344-6225 for details.\
STAGE CENTER: "Gypsy," a one-act play not to be confused with the musical about Gypsy Rose Lee, will be Wednesday's Centerpiece at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke's Center in the Square.
It's a comedy-drama written by Lynn Snyder and directed by Ernest Zulia. It begins at 12:15 p.m., it's free, and you're free to carry your lunch in with you. A limited number of box lunches will be for sale in the lobby, as well.
by CNB