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Perched on a hilltop in southwestern Virginia, the Oaks garnered its name from the seven historic oak trees, now more than 300 years old, that surround the Queen Anne Victorian house, built for a bride in 1889. Its gardens unfold along Christiansburg's Main Street, once part of the Wilderness Road forged by Daniel Boone, today close to the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and a rails-to-trails bicycle path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: THE OAKS, CHRISTIANSBURG, VA.: Quiet History | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...Christiansburg Christian School. Situated in a church basement in southwestern Virginia, Christiansburg Christian teaches all grades from kindergarten through twelve, although it has only seven faculty members (and just one of these has prior teaching experience). Total enrollment is 65 and the annual budget is a bare $110,000. The school's teaching is conducted with a package of self-study workbooks and tapes published by Accelerated Christian Education of Lewisville, Texas, a fast-growing company that markets start-a-school kits nationwide. The fee scale is complicated, but a basic initial A.C.E. charge is $950. Students work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Case for Moral Absolutes | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...Freshman Council last night elected as its president Alan Albert '78 of Wigglesworth Hall and Christiansburg, Va. The council will elect other officers next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN COUNCIL | 11/5/1974 | See Source »

...Christiansburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Virginia Silver Fox Farms Christiansburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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