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Stacks of magazines with the distinctive yellow covers sit in comers of attics, basements, and closets in scores of Rappahannock homes; no one wants to throw away a National Geographic and its windows on the world.
Those collectors who take vicarious travels every month can see the window open a little wider on the screen of the Gay Street Theater when the Monday Night Alternative series, co-sponsored by the Rappahannock Library and the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, presents three National Geographic slide shows on Monday, Feb. 22.
The tour guide for the journeys to the Middle East, under the sea and to faraway places with strange sounding names will be Joe Scherschel, a former photographer for National Geographic.
In his 20 years with the magazine, Mr. Scherschel circled the globe. He photographed a Norwegian expedition crossing the North Pole, and he tramped through the steamy jungles of the Amazon. He was at the Korean peace talks and in Hanoi with the French (those assignments with Life), in Costa Rica, British Guiana, Jerusalem, Abu Simba, Turkey, Hungary, Italy, and Brazil.
For a “Yankee in Europe” piece, he traveled by boat down canals and rivers and across channels from Marsailles to London. And to capture the Austrailian frontier, he crossed the outback bv camel. ieeD and shank's mare. He chronicled the life styles of the natives on Pacific islands undiscovered and unspoiled by tourists, and camped for days in the desert to catch the pyramids of
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