Blue chips started the new trading week with a rally. The DOW gained 165 points. American heritage sites in central Virginia. Chamber officials hope visitors to the Legacy Museum will decide to spend time seeing what else the region has to offer. Two busloads of high school students from Michigan will be the first to take advantage of the tour when they arrive for a visit this weekend.
Tourists can also take advantage of a new guide to historic places in Western Virginia.
The Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College has produced a heritage guide that lists museums and historic sites from Alleghany County to the Coalfields. The guide includes many well-known attractions such as Virginia's Explore Park in Roanoke County, but also a number of smaller, private museums. The Southwest Virginia Heritage Guide will be available through the Blue Ridge Institute, and many of the organizations that are listed. Convention and Visitors Bureaus in Abingdon and Big Stone Gap have also agreed to distribute the brochure. Mike Stevens checks in with him.