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Historian-Led Tour to Mark 161st Anniversary of Battle of New Market

The Virginia Museum of the Civil War at the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park is excited to announce that noted Civil War Historian and Tour Guide, Aaron Siever...

Smith Mountain Lake Triathlon Set for May 3

Virginia Amateur Sports, in partnership with Kinetic MultiSports, is proud to announce that the 27th...

Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert Coming to Roanoke

Nickelodeon, GEA Live, and Senbla today announced Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert – The...

2025 Tavern Stage Summer Music Series Returns to Explore Park

For the third year, Roanoke County Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Explore Park, and Twin Creeks...

PBS Appalachia Premieres Season 3 of “The Life of a Musician” May 3rd

PBS Appalachia proudly announces the premiere of Season 3 of its Emmy Award-Winning music series,...

Record Setting Corps of Cadets

Three hundred eighty-five new members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets reported to the Virginia Tech campus in early August one week...

Sandborg Receives Wade Professorship in Music

Dr. Jeffrey Sandborg’s many years at the helm of Roanoke College’s choral program have commanded an audience and won many fans. Earlier this year,...

Railway Historical Society Plans Trips to Abingdon and “Eastern Continental Divide”

The Roanoke Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society has announced two unique round trip train excursions that will take place the first...

Blue Ridge PBS Wins EMPixx Award For “Virginia State Parks”

The Blue Ridge PBS production “Virginia State Parks: 75 Years and Still Growing,” first broadcast in June 2011, has been honored with a...

FDR Library Photographic Exhibit Recalls Depression Era America

by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. Between 1935 and 1943, photographers from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a New Deal agency, fanned out across America,...

Roanoke Children’s Choir Sings in Centuries Old Canterbury Cathedral

Fifty-two singers from the Concert Choir of the Roanoke College Children’s Choir participated in the highly acclaimed International Children’s Choir Festival at Canterbury...