-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 29, 2018. “We’ve always been closed on Thanksgiving so employees can have the day off,” said Cheri Baker, the owner of the 1930s classic Tuggles Gap Restaurant and Motel at the Blue Ridge Parkway/Route 8 juncture. But this year was different. It was Baker’s 25th […]
1. Last week my grandson Bryce made a puppet in a wheelchair for a school team project about bullying. 2. I pop up like a puppet every evening at 6:30 to watch the nightly news. 3. People Are Already Talking About It: that’s the new buzzword going around ever since we decided to bring back […]
“I can only make three-letter words with these letters,” I said to my Scrabble friend Mark. “That’s bad enough to elicit a string of four-letter ones,” he answered.
This was the first fall 16 Hands Studio Tour that the tour didn’t include my house. For the past 7 years, my son Josh Copus, a 16 Hands member, has been showing his pottery at our cabin, his childhood home off The Blue Ridge Parkway. This year, he’s showing at Benji Obsborne’s woodworking studio on […]
From falling in and out and drifting in between comes morning’s rude awakening when I forget what I did in my dreams _______________Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
Not only did I enjoy a traditional Zephyr Farm Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, but I checked out two Floyd Community Thanksgiving potlucks ala’ Alice’s Restaurant. One was at Tuggles Gap Restaurant on Thanksgiving Day (more soon) and this one at Dogtown Roadhouse last week. Some of the pictures posted here first appeared in The Floyd Press on […]
I’m thankful for the farmers and I guess I’m one, since I brought my homegrown white sweet potatoes to our potluck Thanksgiving dinner at Zephyr Farm. It’s high time for pie!
1. My grandson Liam (8) and I are getting so good at Monopoly that I had to buy more house pieces on Amazon. 2. When I see TOMHANKS’ name in print I see THANKS. 3. I got curious about the word “cheapskate” so I looked up the origin of the term and learned this: “An […]
The special ten-year anniversary issue of Floyd County Moonshine has hit the newsstands, virtual and otherwise. Moonshine is a bi-annual literary journal of local flavor that features primarily regional authors, as well as new and established poets and prose writers from all over. Photography of Floyd’s rural scenery is also included in every issue, and […]
-The following comes from a selection that first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 15, 2018. Members of the Virginia Tech Corp of Cadets led the start of the Veteran’s Day parade through downtown Floyd on Sunday afternoon. Joan Earman, pictured taking a picture of the corp, got in the spirit by wearing red, […]
They’re boots A half-size too big But they don’t slip off All-weather and black I imagine them taking me to the wild places she loved Did she wear them in D.C. when we protested the war or when she fed feral cats in the rain? Broken-in but still useful Dark and official I never wanted […]
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