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From Roanoke Times, "Flashback: Tracking NRV history," Mar 5, 2017, File 1988. Caption: "Ruby Roberts, former Virginia poet laureate, stands on the staircase of her home in Christiansburg. She was named poet laureate emeritus in 1992 and died in 2004."