I always meet a lot of great people at Zadie’s, the restaurant and bar downstairs from The Old Marshall Jail Hotel in NC that my son refurbished. There was a really good contingency of Boston natives there on Saturday night. The accents were flying with the shared stories of growing up on the North and […]
Joe and I just became very excited about the new Amazon SciFi series “The Peripheral,” not only because it’s an exciting movie-quality SciFi premise where Avatar meets Free Guy but because our son Josh and his wife Emily’s Old Marshall Jail in Marshall NC shows up prominently within the first 10 minutes of the first […]
It was a well-attended opening reception for the complementary art of photographer Rob Amberg and ceramics artist Josh Copus (my son), exhibited at the Weizenblatt Gallery at Mars Hill University. The long-time friends and collaborators both live in Marshall, Madison County, NC. Rob has been taking pictures and writing about the changing county since he […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on December 2, 2021. The weekend after Thanksgiving was Josh Copus’ last 16 Hands Studio Tour as a member of the long-standing artisan group, 16 Hands. Copus, who grew up in Floyd and lives in Marshall, NC, was welcomed into the group in 2009, along with […]
The Old Marshall Jail’s Floyd Family Soft-Opening Take-Over weekend was a blast! Yes, it was all fun and games (aka Joe we can see your letters). It included a tour of the jail, repurposed into an art hotel by my son Josh and daughter-in-law Emily, complete with back stories. “It was the oldest operational jail […]
It’s hard to describe the aesthetics and the feeling of being inside my son and daughter-in-laws renovated and repurposed Old Marshall Jail in Marshall NC. Jody may call it being transformed to a foreign country and I may say it feels like we’re staying in a castle, but Amy coined the best description of the […]
The brick installations at the Old Marshall Jail feature bricks made by my Asheville Potter son Josh’s mobile brick factory, stamped with stories that he took from interviews and by everyday people in the Marshall community and beyond. Their readings by Josh were recorded during my recent visit. I think they read like spoken word […]
– A trip to Marshall isn’t complete without a visit to my son Josh’s property, a complex really with three kilns, pottery studios, a brick pizza party plaza, a labyrinth garden and more. Check out the family barn-raising of the building pictured above HERE. / Our World Tuesday
Marshall NC is a mountain town somewhat like Floyd but with two stoplights. Like it’s neighboring Madison County town, Hot Springs, it has a red railway car in it, trains going by and the ancient French Broad River, along with some cool shops (including my son’s wife’s Carolina Flowers Mercantile), an old-time dance hall, a […]
My son’s wife Emily is a flower farmer, florist and store owner. She, the founder of Carolina Flowers, had three weddings on Saturday to pick, arrange and deliver flowers for. October is their busiest month for weddings, but as busy as she was, we managed to squeeze in some weekend visit time, enjoying the flower […]
The three Floyd artists showing at Benji Obsborne’s 16 Hands Studio Tour site are visiting-artist Shanti Yard, a woodturner and 16 Hands members Benjie Osborne, a woodworker, and my son Josh Copus, a ceramics artist. Shanti was impressed that our grandson Liam knew the gemstones inlaid in his wood pieces. He learned them from playing […]
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 […]
