Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 16, 1995 TAG: 9506160027
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The concert, which will feature the Bellamy Brothers, Chalako and Cimmaron, will be held from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. June 24 in Calfee Park. Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the gate. Advance tickets are available from participating downtown stores and merchants in the Memorial Square Shopping Center, Ginger's Jewelry at Fairlawn, and the town Finance Department office in the municipal building.
Most of the other activities and performances are free.
Merchants will conduct sidewalk sales, and the Pulaski County War Memorial will have its long-awaited dedication during the festivities.
Activities will start at 5:30 p.m. June 23 with musical and dance entertainment at the Memorial Square Shopping Center, featuring cloggers, gospel music, and the Nippers & Friends.
And something will be happening each hour from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on June 24, the second day of the festival.
A five-kilometer race starting on Main Street will go from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
The county War Memorial on the front lawn of the Old Pulaski County Courthouse, with memorials to county citizens who gave their lives in various conflicts, will be formally dedicated at a 9 a.m. ceremony.
In Jackson Park, crafts and food vendors will offer their wares from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Musical entertainment in the park will be provided during the day by the U.S. Navy Bluegrass Band, The Ruffians and Sierra.
Crafts and food vendors also will be in the parking lot of Pulaski's renovated Train Station, which houses offices of the Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce as well as the Raymond Ratcliffe Memorial Museum which will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Entertainment around the Train Station will include music by the Riverboat Ramblers, juggler David Bear Stuart and illusionist Eddie Armbrister.
It was the years of renovation of the historic train station, donated to the town by Norfolk Southern Corp., that inspired the first Depot Day last year. The station was dedicated June 11, 1994, amid a day of family activities.
The station eventually will be one terminus for the New River Trail State Park, which now stops at the edge of Pulaski but will be extended two miles into town.
Also scheduled during the day will be a Classic Car Show and a repeat of last year's popular duck race in Peak Creek. Rubber ducks purchased from participating merchants will be numbered and set loose in the creek with a prize to the owner of the duck that floats to the end of the course first.
The concert will round out the second day's activities until 10 p.m.
The Appalachian Railroad Heritage Partnership Costume Party Mystery Theaters will hold two railroad-related mystery programs, with participants trying to solve one mystery each evening.
Tickets to take part in either mystery are $50 per person, and are available at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke or Pulaski administrative offices. Participants will be asked to wear 1940s era clothing, because that is when both mysteries will be set.
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