The 32nd Annual Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum
College will be featured on the Ferrum College Webcam. The online
web camera will offer a view of the antique and period farm machines
on display. The Festival will take place on Saturday, October 22,
2005, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the Ferrum College campus in Ferrum,
VA.
The web camera is mounted on the top
of Franklin Hall on the Ferrum College campus, giving a view of the
Ferrum Mountain Creek Watershed and the campus locations of Basset
Hall, Ferrum Athletic fields and the more recent weight room addition
to Swartz Gymnasium. The camera is pointed toward the northeast. In
the foreground you can see construction traffic for the new Skeens
Conference Center on Franklin Hall in the FerrumPLUS campus construction
phase.
The webcam is used by our Life Science
Division to monitor and share images of watershed weather activity.
To access the webcam, visit the following
webpage and follow the instructions: http://www.ferrum.edu/watershed/webcambod.htm.
Admission to the Blue Ridge Folklife
Festival is $9 for adults and $8 for children and senior citizens.
For additional information, contact the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum
at (540) 365-4416. Visit the festival website here: http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/festivalevents.html.
The Blue
Ridge Institute and Museum is located on Route 40, 10 miles west
of Rocky Mount, Va. Dedicated to preserving the heritage of and educating
people about Blue Ridge culture and traditions, it is also The State
Center for Blue Ridge Folklore.
Ferrum College is a four-year, private, co-educational,
liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Ferrum offers a choice of nationally recognized bachelor’s degree
programs at a cost well below the national average for private colleges.
For more information on Ferrum, visit www.ferrum.edu.
