Educational Programming available

Museum Educator Rich Davis of Roanoke County, who joined the Historical Society staff after retiring from a career in the U.S. Navy, conducts programming in area classrooms and at the museums.

Programs available include a variety of topics, including settlement of the Roanoke Valley, the Civil War homefront, Visual Literacy and Then … Now Photography.

Explore Roanoke’s history through photography. Then and Now and Shoot Like Link workshops also are offered for teens and adults. Then and Now encourages participants to recreate the setting of an historic photo. Veteran photographers from the Roanoke Camera Club are enlisted to teach these classes. Shoot Like Link explores Link’s photography techniques, which were advanced for their time.

Explore the techniques O. Winston Link used to create the photo shown here that includes a plane,

train and automobiles. The photo expands our observation and critical thinking skills.  Discuss images from O. Winston Link as he chronicled the end of the steam train on the Norfolk & Western Railway, including the communities the trains rolled through.

See all programming under Education on the opening page menu.