It was a warm reception for Alwyn Moss and her art exhibit at the Village Center in Warm Hearth Village, a Blacksburg retirement community where Alwyn is a resident. My dear and longtime friend, writer poet, animal rights activist, environmentalist, and past Waldorf kindergarten teacher says this in her artist statement: I began painting […]
A’Court Bason (10/5/1957 – 8/17/2013) was the Lao Tzu of Floyd (along with his older brother Will). He was a self-described butterfly mystic from Across the Way, the English translation of his home farm, Travianna, or what he liked to call Kooky Town. He came to Floyd with his family at the age of 13. […]
We are abandoned here on this earth, left to fall irreparably in love with gravity’s garden, trying our lives to persuade a different ending or some other sense of time while our souls swagger towards eternity.~ Mary North The setting was so intimate – theater in the round in Blacksburg’s new Center for the Arts […]
I may not know much about the classical pieces that were played, but I know a masterful performance when I hear it. I know a masterful performance when I feel it. Even when I was no longer consciously listening, I could feel her music affecting my body, changing the expression of my face, altering my […]
My choice for Best in Show, titled and created by Laura Byler for the Make Me Laugh show currently up at The Jacksonville Center for the Arts.
Do you keep it up all year long?” I asked my long time friend Alwyn Moss about her blue planet Earth flag. We were in the garden behind her apartment in a local retirement community, enjoying the wild cats, the flowering phlox and azaleas, and each other’s company. “No, I can’t,” she answered with an […]
There’s still time to see the 7th Annual Youth & Student Art Exhibit at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts. The show, which showcases the talent and creativity of the youth in the Floyd community, is up until January 28. Blue Mountain and Floyd County Schools are well represented. Winter hours at the center are […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcejhbxnV4k What can I say? They’re hippie, hick, old-time, hobo troubadour and a little punk all at once. They’ve played their Appalachian fiddle tunes, folk songs and jug band blues at the Grand Ole Opry, on Austin City Limits, Late Night with Conan and Prairie Home Companion. They opened for Dolly Parton, were personally invited […]
I’m a big fan of Donna the Buffalo and Jeb’s Puryear’s guitar work. They played at the Dogtown Sun Music Hall Friday and Saturday and we danced our socks off. Watch another clip HERE.
Blue Mountain School student art projects done with art teacher Lora Giessler who has since move to Portland. We miss you Lora!
Floyd’s Little River is poet/artist Jack Callan’s Walden Pond, the place he travels from Norfolk to about six times a year to camp, write poetry and paint. For the past few years Jack, who is a carpenter by trade, had been coming to Floyd’s monthly Spoken Word night to read his poetry whenever he was […]
They come to fill buckets and pans, canning jars, freezer bags, pie crusts, and always, the everwaiting tongue. They come to visit and eat, to sate the hungers of loneliness and body. Though we offer only blueberries, they come wanting more. They come from the American Dream—CEOs and wealthy realtors, two kids piling out of […]
