Ferrum College - The Ferrum Newsstand

    The Southeast Tunis Breeders are excited to announce that the 2006 Tunis Field Day will be held on Saturday, May 6th at the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum. As in previous years, we are anticipating a time of meeting with old friends, making new friends, sharing a little education, and concluding with a private treaty sale.

    Located on the campus of Ferrum College in Ferrum, VA, the institute and Museum has for more than two decades documented, interpreted, and presented the traditional life and culture of the Blue Ridge and its people. Included in the museum is the Farm Museum.

    The Blue Ridge Farm Museum reflects the day-to-day lifestyle of prosperous German-American farmsteaders in the Blue Ridge in the early 1800’s. Visitors may find costumed interpreters preparing meals over the open hearth, baking bread in an outdoor bake oven, blacksmithing, or carrying out other household and farm chores of the period. In the gardens and around the farm buildings, heirloom vegetables and historic breeds of sheep (Tunis), chickens, horse, pigs, and cattle speak the region’s agricultural heritage.

    The weekend of our Field Day, the museum also has scheduled a blacksmithing workshop. So there will be plenty to keep you entertained.

    Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ferrum is just a few miles outside of Rocky Mount, VA. Taking Route 220 it is about 35 miles south of Roanoke, VA and about 80 miles north of Greensboro, NC.

    The first weekend of May the weather should be beautiful in the mountains so put this on your calendar and plan to join us. Bring some sheep to sell or come prepared to buy. More details regarding the sale will be coming.

For more information contact:

Randy Powley (865) 408-9214 or musicman@esper.com
Barbara Cassell (276) 228-2062 or barbaracassell2005@yahoo.com
Rebecca Austin rbaustin@ferrum.edu

    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.

5th Annual Southeast Tunis Day Coming to Ferrum College
For immediate release: April 19, 2006	Contact: Dean Browell, (540) 365-4301, dbrowell@ferrum.edu
The Southeast Tunis Breeders are excited to announce that the 2006 Tunis Field Day will be held on Saturday, May 6th at the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum. As in previous years, we are anticipating a time of meeting with old friends, making new friends, sharing a little education, and concluding with a private treaty sale. Located on the campus of Ferrum College in Ferrum, VA, the institute and Museum has for more than two decades documented, interpreted, and presented the traditional life and culture of the Blue Ridge and its people. Included in the museum is the Farm Museum. The Blue Ridge Farm Museum reflects the day-to-day lifestyle of prosperous German-American farmsteaders in the Blue Ridge in the early 1800’s. Visitors may find costumed interpreters preparing meals over the open hearth, baking bread in an outdoor bake oven, blacksmithing, or carrying out other household and farm chores of the period. In the gardens and around the farm buildings, heirloom vegetables and historic breeds of sheep (Tunis), chickens, horse, pigs, and cattle speak the region’s agricultural heritage. The weekend of our Field Day, the museum also has scheduled a blacksmithing workshop. So there will be plenty to keep you entertained. Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ferrum is just a few miles outside of Rocky Mount, VA. Taking Route 220 it is about 35 miles south of Roanoke, VA and about 80 miles north of Greensboro, NC. The first weekend of May the weather should be beautiful in the mountains so put this on your calendar and plan to join us. Bring some sheep to sell or come prepared to buy. More details regarding the sale will be coming. For more information contact: Randy Powley (865) 408-9214 or musicman@esper.com Barbara Cassell (276) 228-2062 or barbaracassell2005@yahoo.com Rebecca Austin rbaustin@ferrum.edu 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.
###