As a Boy Scout, Randall Spence is well familiar with the Roanoke Canal Trail.
A stone marker is placed some 25 feet away from a kiosk on the Roanoke Canal Trail telling the brief story of Lieutenant Fletcher Thomas Bender, a decorated Air Force pilot who crashed his F-80 jet in 1949.
The Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail will host North Carolina African-American Heritage Commission Director Michelle Lanier Thursday as part of the Friends of the Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail Lecture Series.
The Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail will receive more PBS exposure.
The Roanoke Canal Museum will host UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan Distinguished Professor and author Bland Simpson on October 10 as part of the Friends of the Canal Museum and Trail Lecture Series.
The Roanoke Canal Museum will be featured on an upcoming public television documentary entitled Moving North Carolina, according to a press release from the city.
