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Title Festival in the Park
Date June 13, 1970
Description The image shows two women facing each other in the portico of a glass front building. The two women are talking in front of a pegboard display mounted with landscape paintings. There are also two planters with blooming flowers at the top of the portico steps and a paper clown in the image's foreground on the bottom right corner. The photograph was taken by Robert G. Bruce on June 13, 1970. It was captured at Elmwood Park in Roanoke, Virgina, which is near milepost 121.4 section 1N on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Elmwood Park
Parkway Milepost: 121.4
Latitude: 37.2673595
Longitude: -79.9392043
Creator Individual Robert G. Bruce
Tags Arts and crafts
Festivals
People
Photographs
Roanoke County (Va.)
Roanoke (Va.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway