“What we do today will affect our water quality for centuries.” – Mark Sowers, Floyd dairy farmer. -The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 18, 2014 A scientist, a poet, musicians, biologists and farmers were all part of a Sunday afternoon presentation on the future of Floyd County water. Held at the […]
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 11, 2014. They must be doing something right at Floyd’s Spikenard Farm & Honeybee Sanctuary. “We had zero percent losses last winter,” said the sanctuary’s director and beekeeper, Gunther Hauk. “Everybody’s losing 40 – 60 – 80% around here. One beekeeper near Blacksburg emailed […]
– The following first appeared in the summer 2014 issue of HER, a regional newspaper insert. Martha Taylor and Lester Gillespie can’t remember who first decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, a 500 mile pilgrimage that begins on the edge of northern France, runs through northern Spain, and ends at the Cathedral of Santiago […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 4, 2014 with a larger spread of photos. The 3rd annual Floyd Yoga Jam provided a full roster of workshops and entertainment, as well as a natural setting for spontaneous play and creativity. There were plenty of open grassy places to dance and do yoga. […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 21, 2014 with a larger spread of photos. Organizers of the 4th annual Floyd Auto Fair were thrilled with the good weekend weather. “It rained for about a half an hour Friday night, just long enough to keep the dust down,” said KC Murphy, […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 7, 2014 Floydfest’s first fashion show, Style Revolution, was a showcase of organic fashion and handcrafted designs provided by artisans from the festival’s Vendor Village. The dramatic presentation – held under the Global Village’s futuristic-styled tent Friday and Saturday night – was themed around […]
~ The following was published in the spring issue of About HER, a regional news magazine. Susan Icove’s maternal grandfather ran a junk yard and her paternal grandfather ran a lighting business, so it’s not surprising that the former potter and graphic designer ended up making one-of-a- kind lamps out of junk. “It’s all about […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 17, 2014. Floydfest founder and producer Kris Hodges has been a musician most his life, playing gigs in Roanoke and beyond since the age of 14. Hodges, who is primarily a drummer (and is pictured below with his son), eventually got tired of the […]
~ The following are some of the photos I took for the July 10th issue of The Floyd Press. I think they depict some of the best of small town 4th of July celebrating.
~ The following are some of the photos I took to accompany a recent story in the Floyd Press, written by the paper’s editor about the Hotel Floyd’s expansion. The narrative below comes from a piece I was commissioned to write about the expansion. It appears in the current issue of The Floyd Magazine. The Hotel Floyd […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 19, 2014. Woodworker Ernest Bryant had a steady stream of visitors for the 2014 Floyd Artisan Trail. Tour traffic has been growing every year, Bryant said. This year visitors to Bryant’s home studio came from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina, from all over Virginia and as […]
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 12, 2014. The Virginia Blue Ridge Music Festival (VBRMF) began its 2014 weekend program with a horn performance at the Floyd Community Market, adding a festive note to the downtown Jamboree street scene Friday evening. A Family Concert, dubbed From Baroque to Billy Joel, was […]
