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Title Festival in the Park June, 1971
Date August 1971
Description The image shows a balloon sale by Park Women's Group at Elmwood Park in Roanoke, Virginia. A tent is set up as a vendor booth with a man and a woman filling a balloons from a helium tank, and children holding balloons next to them. There are more people inside the tent and a sign attached to a table at the front of the tent that reads, "Proceeds from sale of balloons go to a Blue Ridge Parkway scholarship loan fund." The photograph was taken by Robert G. Bruce in August 1971.
Location Location Name: Elmwood Park
Parkway Milepost: 121.4
Latitude: 37.2673595
Longitude: -79.9392043
Creator Individual Robert G. Bruce
Tags Festivals
People
Photographs
Roanoke County (Va.)
Roanoke (Va.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway