Geologists say only the Nile River in Egypt may be older than the United States river named “New.” Estimates put the New River in its present course for 65 million years. Along its gorge, exposed rock measures as old as 330 million years. When the Kiwanis Travelog series resumes Friday, Feb. 1, the show will follow this remarkable river and dip into the region around it.

Veteran presenter Ken Creed will be on hand in person to take his audience down the New River. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Tickets will be available at the door, $6 for adults, $2 for high school students and $1 for younger children. As usual, refreshments will be served during the intermission.

The New River flows through Western North Carolina, southwestern Virginia and West Virginia. Creed plunges into the New River Gorge National River Preserve, where 62,000 acres of protected land flank 53 miles of the river’s course. In his travels, he pauses at a demonstration coal mine, films the Fiddlers Convention at Galax, Va., and in Beckley, W.Va., finds actors playing the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. Creed also covers festivities marking the anniversary of the completion of the New River Gorge Bridge. The one-day festival, the largest in West Virginia, includes sky diving and bungee jumping off the bridge, crafts, scenic river cruises, whitewater rafting and mountain climbing. In North Carolina, side trips take his audience to Blowing Rock and Grandfather Mountain.

A former construction executive from Greensboro, Creed became a film travel lecturer in 1982. Since then he has covered 46 states and six provinces of Canada. All of his films have been included in the National Geographic Society lecture series in Washington, D.C. During eight years living in Alaska, he produced four films on the state, two of them made for television. He also worked part time as a hunting and fishing guide and flew more than 40,000 air miles as a bush pilot.

Between lecture tours and filming trips, Creed now lives on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Fancy Gap, Va.