Loose Leaf Notes

-The following first appeared as a feature in Sounds of Floyd, a July 2017 magazine insert publication of The Floyd Press Floyd has always been rich with mountain music, whether it was played on porches, in living rooms, in hollers or churches.  The Floyd Country Store’s Friday Night Jamboree was one of the town’s first […]

The following is a slightly edited version of what recently appeared in a special section of The Floyd Press, Who’s Who in Floyd County 2011. When Lee Hooks and his wife Gail took ownership of the Blue Ridge Restaurant in the spring of 1987, there were only a handful of places to eat in the […]