A Firefly Fling Thing
We were instructed to take video by the event’s no-nonsense teacher/MC, played by Locust Street Player Maggie Hessinger, who also wowed the crowd with her version of The Evolution of Dance (see video 5 below). “You must videotape and you may like to youtube it,” she told the audience, holding up a blackboard pointer and adding that there should be no flash photography … and no booing! It was Floyd’s First Firefly Fling, a talent show and silent auction to benefit the Rising Sun Community School, a new Montessori school in Floyd guided by Montessori teachers and founders Susan Saunders and Stacy Dowd (also Locust Street Players). More on the fling, a fantastic showcase of local musicians, dancers, and actors, and the school soon (check them out on Facebook), and in the meantime, I do what I am told. Here are some video clips of just some of the night’s highlights. Read the Floyd Press story I wrote on the Firefly Fling HERE.
July 19th, 2013 2:27 pm
Again, if it is fun, interesting and creative, then it always happens in Floyd. This Floyd, is on this planet? Sometimes I think it is a planet unto itself. Rocket Man take me there, please.
July 19th, 2013 3:55 pm
I agree with “HUDSON HOWL”….there is more creativity going on in Floyd that any other place I’ve ever heard of….! And you partake of ALL of it! AMAZING, my dear Colleen….!
July 21st, 2013 12:15 pm
It is said that about 20 percent of the people in Floyd are artists of some stripe whereas 3 or 4 percent is considered usual. In the 70s when hippies/artists were looking for cheap land, the independent mountain folk of Floyd welcomed them, laughing all the way to the bank. The land is not great for large scale farming and many “civilizing” things like roads, trains, industry, had not come to Floyd. The youth almost always left the county to find work, the county had lost population for many decades when newcomers, back to the landers, artists, retirees, tourists started to discover this beautiful place.
I tend to think we are all artists. It’s just that many of us don’t practice the usual “arts” because we were told …….. fill in the blank. I think people in places like Floyd encourage and support everyone in their artistic endeavors. If you see your friends and neighbors doing art, you may be more encouraged to try something yourself. I know this place and the people have nurtured my art for decades now, I’m so grateful.
But I do go on……Floyd is one of my favorite subjects.
July 22nd, 2014 8:30 am
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