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Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, September 12, 1996 TAG: 9609130193
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'J.B.' auditions at VWCC
Auditions for Archibald MacLeish's play, ``J.B.'' will be held Sept. 30 from 7 until 10 p.m. in Whitman Auditorium at Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke.
Approximately 20 parts are available for actors, singers and dancers of all ages.
The play will be presented Nov. 7-10 as the college's drama department fall production.
For further information, please call 857-7327.
Genealogy courses in Lynchburg
``From the End to the Beginning,'' a course in beginning genealogy and ``Hidden in the Dust,'' on genealogy resources, will be presented Sept. 26 from 3 until 6 p.m. at Inklings Bookshop, 1206 Main St., Lynchburg.
Historian and researcher Nancy Jamerson Weiland will be the instructor.
For the $45 fee, participants will receive a starter kit and the book, ``Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy.''
The deadline for reservation is Sept. 23.
Space is limited to 15. For further information, please call (804) 845-2665.
'Like Meat Loves Salt' in Abingdon
ABINGDON - Lexington's Lime Kiln will perform an Appalachian folk tale which echoes Shakespeare's "King Lear" at 8 p.m. Sept. 17 in the Virginia Highlands Community College Theatre. Admission is $3.
"Like Meat Loves Salt" was adapted for Lime Kiln's folktale festival in Lexington for its premiere this summer, and is based on a story by William Rough.
Using original music, it depicts a father's test of his daughter's love with three performers playing a variety of characters.
Robin Mullins from Abingdon, a long-time member of the Lime Kiln company, will introduce the play.
'Anne Frank Remembered' showings
ABINGDON - "Anne Frank Remembered," an Academy Award-winning documentary this year, will be shown at 8 p.m. at Virginia Highlands Community College Sept. 24 and Bristol's Paramount Center Sept. 25. Admission is $5, or $3 for students.
Meip Gies, a native Austrian who helped hide the Franks from Nazi Germans and who salvaged the young girl's famous diary, is among those interviewed in the film by director Jon Blair.
The movie includes old still pictures and archival footage, including film of Anne herself looking out a window. The footage was captured accidentally by a wedding photographer in 1941.
Anne's father, Otto, who survived the German death camps, appears in interviews conducted in the 1970s. He died in 1980.
Blair has not been afraid to suggest that Anne was not saint-like as sometimes depicted, with witnesses remembering her as often impudent and driven by a need for attention.
But she remains the sympathetic focal point for a real-life drama which has brought home the horrors of Nazi Germany to many subsequent generations.
Rail excursions in Dillwyn
Passenger excursions will return to the Buckingham Branch Railroad, headquartered in Dillwyn, on Oct. 12 and 26 and Dec. 7 and 14.
Vintage rail passenger cars from the 1920s and open-air sightseeing cars will be featured, pulled by diesel locomotives from the 1950s.
The December trips will feature a seasonally decorated train and Santa Claus. On Dec. 14, the town of Dillwyn will also hold its annual Christmas celebration.
Trains will depart at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Oct. 12 and 26 for a 31/2-hour round trip to New Canton. Fares are $16 for adults and $9 for children two to 12.
On Dec. 7 and 14, trips will leave at 9:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. for a 45-minute ride to Alpha. Fares are $6.
The trips will be sponsored by the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society as a public education project of its Old Dominion Railway Museum.
Tickets and more information are available at State Farm Insurance on Main Street on Dillwyn or by calling (800) 451-6318 from 7 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
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