Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, October 11, 1994 TAG: 9410110102
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Short
The items are on loan from permanent collections and from businesses and individuals in the community.
They include a lead paperweight, designed to celebrate Pulaski County's centennial in 1939 by local artist L.H. Dewey, and an original silkscreen commissioned by the town of Pulaski and presented to the center in 1979. The print, by California artist Leon S. Kawecki, celebrates the 1979 Count Pulaski Day as well as the 200th anniversary of the count's death at the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah in 1779.
NationsBank will loan its portrait of Count Pulaski, which is a copy of the original painted by Polish artist K. Klepacki. It was used by Flo Stevenson of Pulaski as the starting point for her own recently completed portrait of the count, which will also be on exhibit.
Stevenson, operator of the Count Pulaski Bed and Breakfast, also will lend the center a replica that she made of the count's war banner.
On loan from the town will be a print depicting the count sustaining a mortal wound at Savannah, Ga.
The center also will offer balloons and face painting for children. Nadine Allen's exhibit, ``Crosses, More Crosses,'' will be on display. The center's gift shop will be open on Count Pulaski Day.
by CNB