Roanoke Times & World News
_Early 1990's, living in Blacksburg, Virginia, I was a freelance stringer for the Roanoke Times & World News, a paper serving the Virginia region and NOVA Northern Virginia and the Washington DC area. Headlines and captions are crucial frames for stories. I surprised the fellow responsible for them once by simply thanking him. A thanks to Beth Obenshein for bringing me onboard; the staff writers and curmudgeons who gave me laughs. A tip o’ the hat goes to a great editor, Ray Reed.
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© Lura Astor for Roanoke Times & World News Articles used with permission
If you have information on the photographs that accompanied the articles, please let me know!
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_Ellison Adger Smyth: Slightly Irreverent Former Reverend
“Uncle Ellison was a favorite of mine growing up. He could carve a monkey from a peach pit, and polish beautiful natural stones. He was an activist minister during an exciting time of racial relations in the South, and his experiences were fascinating." - Lynda Yarnell 17 Nov 2012
Ellison Smyth: Courage, Determination Helped Combat Bigotry - Civil Rights Work in the South
Smyth said, "It takes a whole lot of living to find out the score, and you keep on. If you quit going, you're gone, and if you lose your sense of humor, you're gone."
Dr. Crippled in Action His Loss is a Chance doctor discovers art, meditation, gardening and other "tricks" of tuning in to yourself after crippling event at work
Cross Country Bike Racer “Then I heard of people doing double centuries, 200 miles. If they can do this, why can't I?"
Fixing Dinosaurs A love of old, big machinery - the craft of rebuilding ... proud of the quality of machines built in America from 1940 through the 1970s ...
Creating an Image Record-Keeping Technology Something we take for granted - scanning. Here's a story of how optical character recognition came to market!
Herbarium Virginia's oldest employee at the time, Mary Linda Smyth, took care of over 86,000 plant specimens housed at Virginia Tech
Paintbrush Bridges Creating cultural bridges with painting
“Uncle Ellison was a favorite of mine growing up. He could carve a monkey from a peach pit, and polish beautiful natural stones. He was an activist minister during an exciting time of racial relations in the South, and his experiences were fascinating." - Lynda Yarnell 17 Nov 2012
Ellison Smyth: Courage, Determination Helped Combat Bigotry - Civil Rights Work in the South
Smyth said, "It takes a whole lot of living to find out the score, and you keep on. If you quit going, you're gone, and if you lose your sense of humor, you're gone."
Dr. Crippled in Action His Loss is a Chance doctor discovers art, meditation, gardening and other "tricks" of tuning in to yourself after crippling event at work
Cross Country Bike Racer “Then I heard of people doing double centuries, 200 miles. If they can do this, why can't I?"
Fixing Dinosaurs A love of old, big machinery - the craft of rebuilding ... proud of the quality of machines built in America from 1940 through the 1970s ...
Creating an Image Record-Keeping Technology Something we take for granted - scanning. Here's a story of how optical character recognition came to market!
Herbarium Virginia's oldest employee at the time, Mary Linda Smyth, took care of over 86,000 plant specimens housed at Virginia Tech
Paintbrush Bridges Creating cultural bridges with painting
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