The following appeared in the July 18th issue of The Floyd Press. The festival is set to begin this Thursday and run through Sunday. A framed photograph of rock-icon Jackson Browne hangs in Linda DeVito’s office at Across-the-Way Productions (ATWP), the downtown Floyd company that promotes and produces Floydfest and other live events. DeVito, […]
Can’t watch TV these days without a flash flood warning breaking in. Can’t go to the Country Club pool because it threatens thunder and lightening or rains every afternoon. Can’t watch the rain-date fireworks all the way through without having to run for cover. The chicken’s yard is a mud pit and I hope we […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 5, 2013. A parade of about 40 people marched down Main Street on Saturday for the first Floyd Pride event. The event was sponsored by Floyd PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and coincided with other Pride marches across the globe. […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 13, 2013 with a larger selection of photos and captions. Where else can you hear ragtime, cathedral music, a waltz, a polka, spirituals, marches, the theme to Pink Panther and a formal symphony orchestra all in one festival? During Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival’s […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 13, 2013 The Blue Ridge Center for Chinese Medicine (BRCCM) is joining the Floyd Artisan Trail this year. The center will showcase its medicinal herb garden as an agricultural site on the June 14 –16 tour. As one of the 45 county destinations featuring […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 6, 2013 The inaugural season of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival (VBRMF) was kicked off with a brass fanfare at the Artisan Market Friday evening. Playing alongside the Market Pavilion, a group of academy student musicians and faculty mentors added a new flavor […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 30, 2013. A debut screening of a documentary film, titled A Matter of Art, was held at Natasha’s Café on the evening of May 13th. Produced and directed by Parv Sethi, the film highlights twelve Floyd artists and includes footage of performances. […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 30, 2013. By Monday, May 20th, word had spread near and far that longtime Floyd resident Rio Semione had passed away suddenly in her Weddle Street home on Saturday evening. Friends began bringing flowers, creating a memorial tribute on her front porch. Many had […]
~ The following first appeared in the spring issue of It’s All About Her, a regional newspaper insert magazine. When Karen Day relocated to Floyd from Greenville, North Carolina, in 2005, she and her husband, McCabe Coolidge, settled in a remote part of the county, living in a rustic cabin off the Blue Ridge Parkway. […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 15, 2013 The third annual Auto Fair & Swap Meet took place on Chantilly Farm Saturday and Sunday to the tune of Low Rider, Mustang Sally and other classic car songs that played on the fair’s sound system. Car enthusiasts from all over Virginia […]
So, I spent a couple of hours on Saturday covering the 3rd annual Auto Fair & Swap Meet at Chantilly Farm in Floyd. To the tune of Mustang Sally and other classic car songs, I cruised the open meadows and graveled main drag viewing the stand-out restored and modern cars and trucks on display. I […]
~The following first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on May 2, 2013. It was dinner theater with a flair, with a pirouette and a spin, with veils, feathered boas and a petticoat at the second annual One Stoplight Variety Show, held at Oddfella’s Cantina on April 25th. The dramatically staged Variety Show entertainment focused […]
