ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, October 27, 1996 TAG: 9610280016
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-25 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Novelist to speak at library ceremony
BLACKSBURG - Blacksburg will celebrate its renovated and expanded branch library today with dedication ceremonies at 2 p.m..
Sharyn McCrumb, an internationally acclaimed mystery writer who lives in Shawsville, is the keynote speaker.
Following McCrumb's remarks, there will be tours of the library and a reception. The library is at 300 Miller St. and backs up to Draper Road in downtown Blacksburg.
For more information, call Jo Brown, associate library director, at 552-8256.
Three towns featured on outdoor program
The towns of Pulaski, Wytheville and Galax will all be featured on the syndicated "Jim Baugh Outdoors" television show, which runs all over the country on ESPN.
The 30-minute show uses the 57-mile New River Trail, Virginia's only linear state park, as the link to tie together the three communities.
Baugh lives in Richmond, and so offered to do the segment for a price lower than the customary one. The state paid half the cost, with the three communities each paying a third of the rest.
Barry Matherly, economic director for Pulaski, said the segment can be running in different parts of the country for years. Unfortunately, Adelphia Cable, which serves Pulaski, does not carry it. It is carried on other cable TV services that serves Blacksburg and Roanoke, among other localities.
Pulaski's Economic Development Board got a sneak preview of the show at its meeting last week on videotape. Matherly said Baugh's crew taped much more footage than the show needs, and towns like Pulaski and Wytheville could use some of it to have their own promotional tapes made, if they wished.
The segment shows people riding, biking and hiking along the trail, doing a variety of water-related activities on Claytor Lake and the New River, and fishing at Pulaski's Gatewood Park.
Wythe, Pulaski in Blue Ridge magazine
Wythe and Pulaski counties will be featured in a 1997 issue of Blue Ridge Country magazine, which covers the Virginias, Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Maryland and Kentucky.
The magazine is published six times a year, with a travel feature in each issue. The Pulaski-Wythe section is scheduled for the May-June issue.
Wythe representatives had been trying to get an article featuring their locality in the magazine for years. The publisher expressed interest if the locality could be enlarged, and so Pulaski came into the picture.
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