Virginia's "Lost Communities" photographic exhibit to be one of the first guest exhibits at new O. Winston Link Museum

Abstract

A photographic exhibit of Virginia's "lost communities" will be displayed at the newly opened O. Winston Link Museum through February. Faculty and students at Virginia Tech's Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies have been working on this project since 2000, traveling across the state to study, research, and compile information on once thriving coal, lumber, or fishing communities that are now mere remnants of structures, or are existing small downtown areas less prosperous than they once were. The project findings will culminate in a photographic history book available to those interested in traveling, exploring, studying, designing, and living in the commonwealth.