-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 6, 2017. Foragers and gardeners, retirees and young homesteaders came from near and far to attend the 4th annual New River Valley Mushroom Cultivation Workshop. The 10 am to 2 pm Saturday event was presented by fungus farmers and fermenters Matt Reiss and Jenna Kuczynski […]
I rubberneck old churches and barns. The more peeled the paint, the better. It’s like being drawn to old musty diaries with stories to tell and learn from. I’m fascinated by keyholes and doorknobs like I want to unlock the meaning of dreams. I’ve always been an explorer of the hidden and think Pandora’s Box […]
I want a soft linen poem without the bog of heavy weight in a color I would wear everyday But the more clothes I have the less places I go and my poems are like house clothes that nobody sees ___Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
The Photo Shoot The Shadow Shot The Album Cover The Hide And Seek Afternoon Walk Down Main Street
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 6, 2-17 (with a couple of the following photos omitted). The latest Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s (FCTG) play, Deathtrap, brought gasps and sometimes laughs from audience members during last Friday evening’s opening night. The play within a play originally premiered on Broadway in 1978. Written […]
1. Someone at the mushroom cultivation workshop I covered this weekend asked one of the workshop leaders to identify a “brown mushroom.” “That’s like trying to identify a person in a tie dye at a Grateful Dead concert,” I said to my neighbor. 2. I woke up with a poem titled “Joe snored last night.” […]
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-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 23, 2017 Randall Wells considers himself “just one of the characters of Floyd.” When the retired English professor moved here from Myrtle Beach with his wife Marge nine years ago, he was so fascinated by the county and its mix of people that he wrote […]
____Footsie #I is HERE / Shadow Shot Sunday
