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Museum in Roanoke honors folks from coalfield counties

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Published: September 28, 2008

ROANOKE, Va. -- What do the Carter Family music group, Francis Gary Powers and Daniel Boone have in common?

They all have connections to Virginia's coal country, making them eligible for honors on a new Southwest Virginia Walk of Fame in Big Stone Gap. The 23 initial inductees, some of whom are still living, were honored at a ceremony unveiling the walk, which consists of engraved tiles on the grounds of the Southwest Virginia Museum.

Sharon Ewing, the director, said the idea for the walk came from Virginia Beach, which has a Virginia Legends Walk honoring people from all over the state. The coalfields pathway is restricted to people who were either born or spent at least five formative or creative years in the coalfield counties of Lee, Wise, Scott, Dickenson, Russell, Buchanan and Tazewell, and the city of Norton.

For details, see www


.swvamuseum.org.

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