Wanda and the White Boys to close out run with benefit concert
After 24 years of touring and performing, Wanda and the White Boys will be retiring as a band. Their career started as a benefit concert in 1987 for the ShenanArts Theater. Since then, they delighted crowds with their variety music from the ’50s to the ’90s for wedding receptions to concerts of 10,000.
Their career performances included opening for groups such as Three Dog Night, The Spinners, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Association, The Tams, and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. They have also toured two times abroad in Ireland for weeklong tours.
Visiting the past: Exhibit brings WWI memories back to life
Elena Siddall has a talent for sharing history. After speaking with her, you can see that this is because her existence, her family, her heritage, and her passion are all tied to the events of World War I, an event that rocked the lives of people from places like Russian and Riga, Latvia, all the way to places like Fishersville.
Siddall is the curator of the World War I exhibit on display at the Fishersville branch of the Augusta County Library, which will remain there through March. The exhibit is an eclectic assortment. In addition to maps, uniforms, weaponry and old photos, there are postcards, poetry books, sheet music, and yellowed packages of gauze from a first aid kit on loan from Fort Pickett. She shares a view of the war through people, sentiments, and personal stories, rather than through statistics, textbook definitions, and numbers.
Closures lifted in Shenandoah National Park
The Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park from Front Royal to Route 211 has reopened after the week-long closure due to the Smith Run Fire. The 105-mile scenic roadway through the park is now open its entire length.
All trails previously closed due to the 2,000-acre fire are also open. This includes Mount Marshall Trail from Skyline Drive to the intersection at the Bluff Trail; Appalachian Trail between Compton Gap and the Browntown Trail; Lands Run Gap Fire Road; and the Jenkins Gap Trail. Park firefighters will continue to monitor the area during the next week.
Taste of the Town on schedule for March 22
The 12th annual Taste of the Town sponsored by Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. is set for Tuesday, March 22, from 5-8 p.m. at the Waynesboro Country Club.
Commission plans film appreciation seminar
The Waynesboro Cultural Commission is offering a film appreciation seminar by Matthew Marshall, Thursday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Shenandoah Valley Art Center (126 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro).
Marshall has taught “The Art of Watching Film” for three years at the University of Virginia’s Personal Enrichment Programs and is offering an introductory lecture based on that course.
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