Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 23, 1995 TAG: 9504240006
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Southern Inns and Bed & Breakfasts will cover Pulaski in its "Weekend Getaway" feature, along with the downtown antique stores that have opened in recent years and points of interest for tours.
A separate article in the magazine's regular "Historical Sketch" segment will cover the Count Pulaski Bed & Breakfast.
Magazine Editor and Publisher Emily Sarah Lineback stayed there recently on her second trip to Pulaski to gather information for the articles.
She said she found so much to write about that the problem was going to be deciding what to cut.
Lineback said her husband's parents had sparked the magazine staff's interest in Pulaski for its major feature in the introductory issue. She said they had stopped off in Pulaski during a trip and were delighted with all the shops and attractions they found.
Some 10,000 copies of Southern Inns will be distributed in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Lineback said the number and region for future issues may expand as advertising grows.
More than half the copies of the first issue will be given away, Lineback said, "just because it is the first issue." They will go to outlets featuring tourism materials, bed and breakfast inns, stores catering to the tourist trade and selected bookstores. So Pulaski, by being in the premiere issue, will get extra exposure.
Other articles scheduled for the 32-page issue cover the High Point, N.C., furniture market; the scenic overlook at Pilot Mountain, N.C.; a guest home at Little River, S.C.; and a pictorial feature on outdoor settings.
The magazine's home base will be North Carolina, where there are 300 to 400 bed and breakfast spots, Lineback said.
With the number of traditional and bed and breakfast inns growing at about 15 percent a year, she said, the magazine staff saw an untapped market with concentrated, detailed, current information on inns.
"We're small, but determined. We've gotten a lot of work done," Lineback said of the magazine staff.
She said the idea for the magazine came when she and her husband could not find detailed information about inns or bed and breakfast facilities anywhere else.
Lineback is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has worked as a free-lance writer, reporter, copy editor, guest columnist and editor of a weekly television publication.
by CNB