Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 18, 1993 TAG: 9304160044
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WHO, WHEN & WHERE
Museum wins awardThe Museum of American Frontier Culture in Staunton has received this year's Society of American Travel Writers' Phoenix Award. The national award recognizes the museum for its work in reconstructing and preserving America's heritage by bringing original historic structures from Europe to America and staffing them with costumed interpreters.
The museum was one of six recipients of the Phoenix Award this year.
Rain forest lecture
New Century Conservation Trust Secretary Charles Haskell will discuss his findings from a recent expedition to the Amazon rain forest at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Reynolds Homestead in Critz.
Haskell's journey retraced the route taken by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1914. His lecture is titled "The River of Doubt - 1914-1991."
For more information, call 694-7181.
`JFK' author to speak
Nigel Hamilton, author of "JFK: Reckless Youth," will speak on "The real John F. Kennedy as seen by a biographer and a friend" on Monday at Sweet Briar College. The lecture is at 8 p.m. in Wailes Student Center.
A reception and book signing will follow.
For more information, call (804) 381-6262 or (804) 381-6330.
Poetry reading
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver will read from her works April 21 at Washington & Lee University in Lexington.
Oliver, who received the 1984 Pulitzer for "American primitive," is currently Sweet Briar College's writer-in-residence. Her 1992 book, "New and Selected Poems," a collection of her work over the past 27 years and 30 new poems, has won the National Book Award.
Oliver's reading will be in the university library's Northen Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 463-8460.
Strawberry festival
Community School's Strawberry Festival will again coincide with the Virginia State Chili Cook-off, on April 30-May 1 at Crestar Plaza in downtown Roanoke.
Both days, from 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Community School volunteers will serve strawberry shortcake, chocolate-dipped strawberries, slushes and strawberry sundaes. Prices will range from $2.50-$3.50 and will benefit the private Roanoke school.
Entertainment will also be on hand during the festival. For more information, call the school at 563-5036.
Play benefit
Bedford's Little Town Players will stage Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" from April 30-May 1 at 8 p.m. and May 2 at 2 p.m. at Bedford Middle School. The $7.50 ticket will be applied toward the the construction of a new public library in Bedford.
The Little Town Players grew out of an "Our Town" performance given 17 years ago, and some of the original players will return to this year's production.
For more information or for tickets, call 586-1936.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock's Lemonheads will play with Sloan and Low Pop Suicide on Monday at Virginia Tech's Squires Student Center in the Commonwealth Ballroom.
Tickets to the 8 p.m. concert cost $10, and are available by calling 231-7117.