-The following first appeared in Floyd Times on August 27, 2025 The Floyd Living Traditions Festival is a free-to-the-public annual celebration of mountain culture and heritage. Presented by The Floyd Center for the Arts (FCA) and The Handmade Music School (HMS), this year’s festival featured over 25 artisan booths to explore, Appalachian living demonstrations and […]
1. When I was a kid, my siblings sometimes called Colly dog as a play on my name Colleen. Maybe it was a premonition or a precursor to me growing up to be a news watch dog. 2. I use to quote Sting whenever I posted an umbrella picture… It’s a big enough umbrella but […]
-The following first appeared in Floyd Times on August 20, 2025. A record-breaking crowd turned out for the August 14th iteration of the 8th Annual Small Town Summer at the Warren Lineberry Memorial Park. Outdoor seating for the every-other Thursday summer event spilled out onto the entrance courtyard, along the Dogtown Roadhouse porch and the […]
It was a night of Irish poetry and music at The Floyd Country Store on Wednesday with poet Katherine Chantal. Music by Katherine Wiley on fiddle, David Scheim on harp and piano and Julian Pecoraro (Wiley’s son) on cello set the scene and complimented Katherine’s readings. Katherine read from her latest book Irish Pilgrimage: Third […]
1. If you really knew me, you’d know that I’d never have a red car. 2. And that I only have a land line so I can call my cell phone when I can’t find it. 3. I’ve been drawn to the song “The Telephone Hour” from the musical Bye Bye Birdie ever since I […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 14, 2025. Crooked Mountain Campground is a Veteran owned event venue and pick-your-own flower farm owned by Brian and Christy Corbett. Although the couple have lived on the property for 4-years this September, they began hosting events in 2024 and were named “Outstanding New Tourism […]
1. This is the stuff fairy tales are made of. 2. The days of eating garden corn over the butter dish are over. 3. My phone plant identifier app calls these overgrown plants ‘wild lettuce.’ 4. The sky is a blue canvas for the tallest sunflowers / A hummingbird whirs in search of bright colors […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 7, 2025. Velva Groover is an active member of Floyd Flower Power, a project of The Partnership for Floyd, the non-profit community-focused initiative that brought us Lineberry Park and Floyd’s nature trails. With a goal of beautifying Floyd and highlighting its native plants, Groover and […]
He told me to turn my head from right to left during TV commercials that I don’t watch But there are resting stops and skips in the record intermissions and intentions that break up the day I want to hope for improvements but have no agendas want to love what I have and whatever comes […]
1. There were more or less three Grateful Dead parties for Jerry Garcia’s birthday over the weekend. There were also gully washes all over the county, so we only made it to one. Leonard Blush and the Camelcals (aka as John McBroom and friends) played some Dead tunes at Dogtown. 2. I found out, because […]
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 22, 2025. Since 2010 the Floyd Farmers Market at the downtown Community Pavilion has been a hub of activity every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm. More recently, the popular marketplace added a Thursday Market from 2-6 pm, May to October. The summer months […]
–The Following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 31, 2025 Eleven miles of string lights were added to Floydfest Festival Park at 5826 Floyd Highway North in preparation for the annual festival, held from July 23 to 27. The lights are a fitting addition for 2025 festival’s namesake, Aurora. There are new sidewalks, […]
