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Blue Ridge Music Center. Just off the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Galax, musicians keep traditional, old-time and bluegrass alive in concerts and at the facility's new interpretive center.
MORE NEW TO SEE AND DO IN VIRGINIA
(As referenced from 2006 Almanac)
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• New at Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen
is the Wintergarden Spa. Also new: the
Outer Limits Ski Trail will open in December
2006, a new 2,200-feet-long, steep
30- to 35-degree slope for advanced skiers.
This brings the resort’s total to 24 slopes.
1-800-926-3723 or 434/325-2200,
www.wintergreenresort.com.
• The McDowell Civil War Orientation Center
is the first of five planned centers in
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National
Historic District. It’s housed inside the new
Highland Museum & Heritage Center in
McDowell. 540/740-4545, www.shenandoahatwar.org/cluster_mcdowell.html or www.highlandhistoricalsociety.com/
museum.htm.
• The Raymond Loewy Gallery at O. Winston
Link Museum in Roanoke is a permanent
gallery of transportation designs by the industrial
designer of the Studebaker and
Roanoke’s Norfolk and Western Railway
Passenger Station (home to the museum).
540/982-5465, www.linkmuseum.org.
—Gail Fleenor
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6 GREAT VIRGINIA HISTORIC STOPS
(As referenced from 2006 Almanac)
1. History Museum & Historical Society of
Western Virginia, Roanoke,
540/342-5770
2. New Market Battlefield State Historical
Park, New Market, 540/740-3101 or
1-866-515-1864
3. The Blue Ridge Music Center, Galax,
276/236-5309
4. Southwest Virginia Museum Historical
State Park, Big Stone Gap,
276/523-1322
5. Blue Ridge Institute & Farm Museum,
Ferrum, 540/365-4416
6. Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer
Park, Tazewell, 276/988-6755
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