The Crooked Road, Virginia's heritage music trail, is recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By Ralph Berrier Jr. and Katelyn Polantz The Roanoke Times
For a few hours Wednesday, men and women in suits and dress clothes filled a dance floor usually reserved for mountain cloggers.
At the Floyd Country Store, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named The Crooked Road -- a heritage trail linking towns and music venues in Southwest Virginia -- one of 2010's Dozen Distinctive Destinations.
"This is where America learned to be America," Joe Wilson, co-founder of The Crooked Road and chairman of the National Council for the Traditional Arts, said into a microphone still warm from the Rugby Gully Jumpers playing old-time music minutes before. "The Blue Ridge was a great mixer of people, and it can still be a great mixer of people."
This is the first time the National Trust has named a region rather than a town or city as a Distinctive Destination, and the award will give The Crooked Road a platform for marketing on the National Trust's Web site and in other publications. It doesn't include a cash award.
Read on...
By Ralph Berrier Jr. and Katelyn Polantz The Roanoke Times
For a few hours Wednesday, men and women in suits and dress clothes filled a dance floor usually reserved for mountain cloggers.
At the Floyd Country Store, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named The Crooked Road -- a heritage trail linking towns and music venues in Southwest Virginia -- one of 2010's Dozen Distinctive Destinations.
"This is where America learned to be America," Joe Wilson, co-founder of The Crooked Road and chairman of the National Council for the Traditional Arts, said into a microphone still warm from the Rugby Gully Jumpers playing old-time music minutes before. "The Blue Ridge was a great mixer of people, and it can still be a great mixer of people."
This is the first time the National Trust has named a region rather than a town or city as a Distinctive Destination, and the award will give The Crooked Road a platform for marketing on the National Trust's Web site and in other publications. It doesn't include a cash award.
Read on...
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