Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 19, 1995 TAG: 9505190053
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Applications for the annual Festival in the Park's Moore's/Q99 River Race must be returned by noon today.
Competition, to be held May 27 at Smith Park, is limited to the first 100 entries. Applications may be picked up at any Moore's Lumber and Building Supplies, CMT Sporting Goods and the Festival Office, Kirk Avenue, downtown.
T-shirts and trophies will be awarded for Best Newcomer, Wackeist, I Can't Believe It Floats, Most Original, Best Commercial, Best Neighborhood, Best Non-profit, Best Church Entry, Fastest Craft and People's Choice.
There is no entry fee.
For more information, call 342-2640.
Poplar Forest lecture
``Toil and Elegance: Hand Production In the 19th Century,'' the first lecture in the 1995 Restoration Lecture Series at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Forest (Bedford County), will be held Saturday at 10 a.m.
James Gaynor, curator of Mechanical Arts for Colonial Williamsburg, will lead a multimedia presentation on 18th-century tools and tool production. Gaynor will discuss how early artisans used tools and how those tools functioned.
Following the lecture, a special presentation will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the grounds of the retreat. Douglas Rideout, restoration craftsman at Poplar Forest, will demonstrate woodworking techniques used in the restoration of Jefferson's home.
Reservations are required. Regular admission will be charged for the program and includes a tour of the house.
Poplar Forest is the home Jefferson designed and used as his personal retreat from 1906-1823. It is open to the public April through November, Wednesdays through Sundays, from 10 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
For more information or reservations, call (804) 525-1806.
Book signing
Mary Campagna-Hamlin will sign her book, ``Gainsboro: The Destruction Of A Historic Community,'' Saturday, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Books-A-Million Bookstore at Crossroads Mall, Roanoke.
The book, published by the Historic Gainsboro Preservation District, Inc., details the effects of urban renewal on the Gainsboro neighborhood and the community's response to recent urban planning developments there.
The book is available at area bookstores and the Hotel Roanoke.
For more information, call 342-0728 or 268-5402.
by CNB