In the best Floyd tradition, we filled the dance floor at Dogtown Roadhouse last night, dancing to Floyd’s Time is Art. Even Ed Cohn (far left), the farmer/musician who the dance party fundraiser was for, spun with the best of them. Ed is moving to Portland and was recently robbed of the money he […]
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 […]
This is what I like to do on the weekends: dance to Spoonfight, an excellent Floyd band comprised of Blue Mountain School alumni. Have a listen HERE and HERE. This is what I don’t like to do the next morning after doing what I like to do the night before: take a 4 hour medicine […]
We were instructed to take video by the event’s no-nonsense teacher/MC, played by Locust Street Player Maggie Hessinger, who also wowed the crowd with her version of The Evolution of Dance (see video 5 below). “You must videotape and you may like to youtube it,” she told the audience, holding up a blackboard pointer and […]
Aka: Just an average day in Floyd I stopped on my way to town when I noticed a bride in road. It reminded me of the time when Joe and I were in Ireland and we stopped at a pub where a wedding party was taking place because I wanted to see the Irish version, […]
The following is a press release on the new Blue Mountain School that my husband Joe Klein (pictured center) is director of. It is interspersed with photos of a teen mixer that took place in May for potential students. Since then, Ezekiel Fugate, has been hired as a lead teacher and in depth story appeared […]
The Floyd Artisan Market happens every Friday in conjunction with the Friday Night Jamboree when downtown takes on a festival atmosphere and fiddlers and others are happily pickin’ in the streets. This Friday was also the opening day of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, bringing eleven days of classical music to the musical mix that […]
Oddfella’s Cantina ______________Wordless Wednesday
I’m busy writing my TEDx talk (of sorts) about our TEDxFloyd talks for the local paper. In the meantime, here’s the latest from the primary TEDxFloyd event organizer Hari: The livestream is still there for ten days (I think). The videos (each talk separately) will be edited and loaded onto TEDx youtube channel–this is a […]
~ The following is a selection of photos from a group that first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 25, 2013. NRV Master Gardener Coordinator, Wendy Silverman, presented an exhibit on identifying nutritional deficiencies in plants at the annual Earth Day Celebration, hosted by the Partnership for Floyd at the Floyd EcoVillage. Silverman said […]
Last weekend our neighbors, Dennis and Suzi, invited Joe and I to attend a wildflower walk on their property. It was a gathering of a local Organic Gardening and Wild Foods group. It was a nice day and organic gardeners, foragers and others came out of the woodwork. About 40 people attended, including a couple […]
I was wrong last week when I titled a blog entry Last Chance to Post Pictures of Snow. I was premature when I took the photo of the red-breasted nuthatch on icy tree branches down from my Facebook Timeline header and replaced it with bright spring flowers. The snowfall yesterday caught everyone off guard. I was […]
