ROANOKE TIMES Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times DATE: Friday, January 26, 1996 TAG: 9601260084 SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
LENGTH: Short : 20 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: GENE DALTON/Staff. The family in the house across theby CNBroad might have been taken aback to see John Jefferies of Radford
preparing to fire a Revolutionary War-era cannon their way Thursday
afternoon - but it was only a demonstration for pupils at
Christiansburg's Falling Branch Elementary School. Jefferies and
other members of Crockett's Battalion, a local group of re-enactors,
were helping to enliven the pupils' study of the American
Revolution. color.