ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 18, 1993                   TAG: 9304160433
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
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WHO, WHEN & WHERE

Circus walk

On April 21, the 49-car train of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus pulls into Roanoke, and the animals will make their way through the city.

"The Grand Animal Walk" heralds the arrival of the 122nd edition of the circus.

The train is scheduled to arrive at 9 a.m. The animals - elephants, horses, llamas and camels - will be unloaded at the old Norfolk Southern passenger terminal at 101 Shenandoah Ave. at 9:30 a.m.

The walk begins at 10 a.m. moving west on Shenandoah, right on Jefferson Street, right on Wells Avenue and left on Williamson Road to the first Civic Center entrance.

Circus tickets are on sale at the Civic Center and all Ticketmaster locations. For information, call 981-1201 in Roanoke, 846-8100 in Lynchburg, 951-TICS (8427) in Blacksburg, 343-8100 all other areas.

Writer to speak

Experimental writer Kathy Acker will read from her fiction at Hollins College's Babcock Auditorium on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Acker, who teaches writing and literature at the San Francisco Art Institute, has written "Blood and Guts in High School," "Empire of the Senseless," and "In Memoriam to Identity." Her latest novel, "My Mother: Demonology," will be published this spring by Pantheon Books.

A reception and book signing will follow the reading in the college's Green Drawing Room.

For more information, call 362-6849.



by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB