ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, June 9, 1996 TAG: 9606070088
SECTION: TRAVEL PAGE: 8 EDITION: METRO
The second phase of an effort to link Virginia's Civil War history through biking, hiking, boating and driving trails will be inaugurated June 20 at a ceremony at Germanna Community College in Orange County.
"Lee vs. Grant: The 1864 Campaign" will include historic sites from Fredericksburg, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House to Richmond and Petersburg.
Phase I of Virginia Civil War Trails, "Lee's Retreat," is already in place with interpretive signs at 20 sites from Petersburg to Appomattox. Phase II, "1862 Peninsula Campaign," is under development with 58 sites planned. Phase IV, "Northern Virginia/Shenandoah Valley Campaign," will add 49 sites and complete the statewide undertaking.
For more information call 1-888-CIVIL WAR or access the Virginia Division of Tourism's web page at http.//www/VIRGINIA.org
Main Street parade goes dark at Disneyland
Disneyland has announced it will pull the plug on its venerable Main Street Electrical Parade in October.
You still have a little more than four months to watch the 40 light-dotted floats that depict such Disney classics as Cinderella, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse - many towering as high as 112 feet above the street.
Not to worry: Those wizards at Disney already have a new night-time spectacular swimming on their drawing boards.
For more information call (714) 781-4565 or (213) 626-8605, ext. 4565.
- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE
Las Vegas may surpass Orlando as top travel spot
More Americans plan to travel this summer than last, and Las Vegas is shaping up as the top destination, surpassing even Orlando, judging by a survey of U.S. travel agencies.
The American Society of Travel Agents surveyed 158 randomly selected agencies in late April and early May, asking about their summer bookings.
When the agencies were asked to name the top five domestic destinations they were booking, Las Vegas was cited by 46.8 percent; Orlando, Fla., by 28.5 percent; New York by 23.4 percent; Seattle by 14.6 percent; and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, each named by 11 percent.
The survey was taken before gas prices rose nationwide, but a society spokesman did not expect that would significantly affect the travel outlook suggested by the survey.
- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE
Festival jazzes up Hampton
The 29th annual Hampton Jazz Festival, scheduled June 20 through 23 in the Hampton Coliseum, will go beyond its name this year to include performers with a variety of musical styles and backgrounds.
June 20 will be R&B Roots Night and will showcase several rhythm and blues veterans. The lineup includes the Isley Brothers, Millie Jackson, Isaac Hayes and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
A full lineup will also take the stage on June 21. Jonathan Butler, a vocalist and guitarist born out of apartheid in South Africa, will perform that night as well as crooner Barry White, organist and trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco, and saxophonist Grover Washington Jr.
Chick Corea & Friends will perform on June 22 in a show entitled "Remembering Bud Powell." Corea's friends will include drummer Roy Haynes, saxophonist Joshua Redman, trumpeter Wallace Roney and bassist Christian McBride. Vocalist Chaka Kahn and saxophonist David Sanborn will also perform that night as well as Herbie Hancock.
June 23 will feature jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal and singers Luther Vandross and Rachelle Ferrell.
For tickets and more information, call 804-838-4203.
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