ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, July 8, 1996 TAG: 9607090016
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Bath County Art Show
The Bath County Art Show in Hot Springs, now in its 32nd year, will be held July 21-28 in the air-conditioned Bath County High School gymnasium atrium.
The show attracts artists from Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida.
Approximately $5,000 in prize money will be awarded.
The display will be open daily 1:30-5 p.m. There is no admission charge.
The school is on U.S. 220 two miles north of Hot Springs.
For more information, call 839-5174 or 839-2139.
'Wheels of Dreams' show
Do you have a dream machine? A customized car to match your individual personality?
The Virginia Museum of Transportation is seeking people and their customized cars for the ``Wheels of Dreams! 1996'' exhibit, to be held during August.
The display will explore the connection between people and their vehicles and will consist of one-of-a-kind vehicles and personality profiles and photographs of their owners.
Exhibits will rotate weekly during the month.
Visitors will have an opportunity to vote for the People's Choice Award, to be presented at the close of the exhibit.
To schedule an interview about your car or for more information, call 342-5670.
Poplar Forest lecture
An evening lecture sponsored by Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest will feature Lucia Stanton on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Holiday Inn Central, Odd Fellows Road, Forest.
Stanton, Senior Research Historian at Monticello's International Center for Jefferson Studies, will speak on ``Slave Life and the Plantation Community at Poplar Forest and Monticello.''
Stanton is a leading authority on Jefferson's life at Monticello and is responsible for Monticello's African-American oral history project, ``Getting Word.''
There is no fee for the program but reservations are required. Call (804) 525-1806.
Rail photos sought
The Virginia Museum of Transportation is seeking old and new photographs of Norfolk & Western, Virginia Railway, Chesapeake & Ohio, Southern Railroad, and RF&P railroad employees for use in its new permanent exhibit, ``Working the High Iron,'' which will open in October as part of the 1996 Roanoke Railway Festival.
The exhibit was conceived from the idea of creating a railroad ``family album'' to show the human side of the Industrial Revolution in Virginia. The museum is particularly interested in contacting families who have had multiple members who worked for the railroad. Photographs of groups of railroad employees and workers on the job will also be included in the exhibit.
If you have photographs that could be used in the exhibit, call Elizabeth Bishop at the museum, 342-5670.
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