Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, July 2, 1995 TAG: 9506300028
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Mill Mountain Zoo will extend its hours July 4 to allow visitors to watch the fireworks display over Victory Stadium.
Gates will close at 9 p.m. The zoo will be open until the end of the fireworks. The concession stand will close at 8:30 p.m. Visitors are welcome to pack a picnic supper. No alcohol is permitted.
Regular zoo admission applies, $3.50 for adults, $2 for children under 12.
For more information, call 343-3241.
Children's lit lectures
Summer lectures on children's literature are being held at Hollins College on Thursday, July 17 and 25. All lectures begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Dana Science Building's Babcock Auditorium. They are free and open to the public.
Author and poet Nancy Willard, whose works include the award-winning books ``The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon'' and ``Night Story,'' will speak on Thursday. She is a lecturer at Vassar College and an instructor at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.
Michael Gaudreau will present a storytelling performance July 17. Gaudreau teaches visual art for teens and adults and uses art and music to develop stories for telling.
Dr. Osayimwense Osa, associate professor at Clark Atlanta University and editor of the Journal of African Children's and Youth Literature, will lecture July 25. Osa is author of ``African Children's and Youth Literature'' and editor of African American Children's Literature.''
For more information, call 362-6024 or 362-6451.
Play included in reading project
``Too Free for Me,'' a historical play written by Ferrum College professor of drama Rex Stephenson, has been chosen by the American Alliance for Theatre Education to be included in its Unpublished Play Reading Project.
It will be featured at the AATE national conference in August.
The play premiered in the summer of 1980 and was the first production of what was to become Ferrum College's Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre.
by CNB