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Good morning, Blacksburg.

Happy Friday and get ready for another gameday weekend! FYI, the most lopsided score in college football history is Georgia Tech's 222–0 victory over Cumberland University on October 7, 1916.

We’ll see you next week on Monday.

Unknown source; but US image from 1916

In today’s Blacksburg Connect:

  • 🎉 Kickoff on College Avenue runs it back tonight

  • 🎶 A free Cajun and Creole concert on the lawn downtown

  • 🏈 Noon kickoff tomorrow: the whole timeline

Let’s get to it.

Upcoming Events

Friday, September 11th — 25th anniversary of 9/11

Saturday, September 12th

  • 🥕 Blacksburg Farmers Market — 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. (Market Square Park)

  • 🏈 Virginia Tech vs. Old Dominion — 12:00 p.m. (Lane Stadium). Noon kickoff, so campus and downtown traffic builds through the morning

  • 🎤 Rockin' Christiansburg — 5:00–9:00 p.m. (Uptown Mall, 782 New River Rd.) — second concert at the series' new Uptown location

  • 🐟 Mount Tabor Ruritan Fish Fry — 5:00–7:00 p.m. (Slusser's Chapel Picnic Shelter, 1543 Mount Tabor Rd.) — fish, fries, slaw and homemade desserts. Adults $12, under 12 $6, under 3 free, carry-outs $12. Music from the Blue Ridge Vocal Connection. Rain or shine. This is the last fry of 2026. 540-449-6178

  • 🎺 1940s Swing Dance Night — 7:00–10:00 p.m. (1531 N. Main St., Suite C, Blacksburg) — The Old Pro's Big Band, open to the whole community

Sunday, September 13th

  • 🕰️ Blacksburg Vintage Market — 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (Market Square Park, corner of Roanoke and Draper) — second and fourth Sundays through November

🎉 Kickoff on College Avenue is tonight

College Avenue turns into a street party from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Outdoor event, weather permitting.

What's there:

🏀 Virginia Tech women's and men's basketball appearances 🎵 Live music and entertainment 👕 White Effect merchandise — useful, since tomorrow's game is a White Effect game 🎁 Giveaways 🐕 Virginia Tech therapy dogs 📸 Photos with the HokieBird and the Spirit Squad 🍺 A beer garden, face painting and shopping

(Full lineup)

Hosted by Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia Tech and The Blacksburg Partnership, with The Lyric Theatre, the Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation, the Center for the Arts, Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Montgomery County Regional Tourism and Step Into Blacksburg. Everyone's welcome.

🎶 A free concert on the lawn

Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole play the Patricia Buckley Moss Lawn at 6:00 p.m., 190 Alumni Mall. Free, outdoors, about 90 minutes with no intermission. Bring a blanket.

Watson is a four-time Grammy nominee — a fiddler, accordionist and singer out of south Louisiana playing Cajun and Creole music, a tradition that pulls together African, Native American, French and Spanish influences. Expect fiddle tunes, accordion, and a lot of singing in French. He writes most of his own material on a double-row Hohner accordion.

Earlier in the day, the band leads an open jam session on the Solitude Porch, 705 W. Campus Dr., noon to 1:00 p.m., free, hosted by the Appalachian Caucus and the Appalachian Studies Program at Virginia Tech. Bring an instrument or just sit and listen.

🏈 Noon kickoff tomorrow: the whole timeline

Virginia Tech hosts Old Dominion at 12:00 p.m. Saturday at Lane Stadium, on The CW. It's a White Effect game, so wear white.

🕖 7:00 a.m. — Parking lots open to football parking pass holders

🕣 8:30 a.m. — Beamer Way closes to traffic

🕘 9:00 a.m. — Hokie Village opens, west side of Lane Stadium

🕤 9:30 a.m. — Hokie Walk down Beamer Way

🕙 10:00 a.m. — Stadium gates open

🕚 11:15 a.m. — Hokie Village closes

🕛 Noon — Kickoff

(Virginia Tech Athletics)

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Thanks for reading! We’ll see you on Monday for now here’s a look ahead for next week:

Next week

  • 🏛️ Mon, Sept. 14 — Montgomery County Board of Supervisors, 755 Roanoke St., Christiansburg. Closed session 6:00 p.m. if needed, open session 7:15 p.m.

  • 🍳 Tue, Sept. 15 — Welcoming Week Breakfast Around the World, 10:00 a.m.–noon, YMCA Center, free. Mayor Michael Sutphin delivers a Welcoming Week proclamation

  • 🏫 Tue, Sept. 15 — Montgomery County School Board work session, Government Center, 7:00 p.m.

  • 🎻 Tue, Sept. 15 — Virginia Tech Faculty and Friends, an evening concert by VT music faculty

  • 🧶 Wed, Sept. 16 — Sip and Stitch at Blacksburg Wine Lab, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Bring whatever you're making

  • 🎹 Wed, Sept. 16 — NY NY Dueling Pianos in Blacksburg

  • 🤖 Wed, Sept. 16 — Drosera Obscura, live vocal performance with animatronics, extended reality and spatial sound, plus an artist talk

  • 🎬 Thu, Sept. 17 — Flamekeeper: The Michael Cleveland Story at The Lyric. Free. Cleveland plays fiddle with Béla Fleck two nights later, so this is the setup

  • 📜 Thu, Sept. 17 — Constitution Day talk with Radford University professor Stephen M. Joyce, 7:00–8:30 p.m., Torgersen 2150

  • 🗳️ Fri, Sept. 18 — Early voting opens. Office of Elections, 1546 N. Franklin St., Christiansburg, weekdays 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

  • 🖼️ Fri, Sept. 18 — Welcoming Week art gallery reception, 5:00–7:00 p.m., YMCA Center, free. Public Living Room from 3:30, and an International Café Hour featuring Saudi culture at Deet's Place, 4:00–6:00

  • 🏊 Fri, Sept. 18 — Family Fun Swim Night, half off admission

  • 🎨 Fri, Sept. 18 — Mimicking Matisse paint night at the Montgomery Museum with artists Ruth Lefko and David Ferrell

🎃 Then Saturday, Sept. 19

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