
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 13, 1990                   TAG: 9004130890
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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WHO SAYS EXPLORE MUST BE BUILT IN DAY?

VIRGINIA once had land that is now Kentucky and West Virginia, and shared land that is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. So we did have land out to the Mississippi River.

The French were in the Roanoke Valey, but they were more peaceable than the ones up north. The Roanoke Valley was known as "The Deep Woods" in early America; we're still called that today in Richmond!

The Explore Project will be a mixture of outposts, villages and towns of the period and from the area that it describes. With the health codes of Virginia, Explore won't be like a real place of that time. There won't be any privies. Sewage won't be thrown out into streets.

Besides, who says Explore has to be built in a day, month or a year? Roanoke wasn't! People could come and see how buildings were put up in that time.

\ M. STEVEN FAIN\ SPENCER

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