History

31 Mar

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Friday April 1, 2022 will begin the opening for The Long Rifle in Virginia Exhibit. This exhibit will be showcased across the state of Virginia at 6 historic locations. Wilderness Road State Park, Ewing Natural Tunnel State Park, Duffield William King Museum of Art, Abingdon O. Winston Link History & History Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester Each exhibit will showcase different programming featuring events, stories, and...

19 Jan

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Upon entering the Ralph Stanley Museum the first stop is the Crooked Road section.  Here guests find their first introduction to "the Dickenson County sound." This is the unique sound found in the county's hollers and hills. It is derived from its Scotch Irish settlers. This sound was developed over decades of front porch pick'n and song's handed down from generation to generation. One person up the mountain might have had a fiddle. A person down...