-The following first appeared with a slightly different selection of photos in The Floyd Press on December 7, 2017. Shoppers mingle at the 23rd annual Winterfest Arts and Crafts Festival, the Floyd Center for the Arts longest running event. The Saturday through Sunday event, December 3rd and 4th, featured more than 30 vendors of regionally […]
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 19, 2015. An Evening with Patrick Holden – a farmer and global voice on sustainable food practices – drew a large crowd at the Floyd EcoVillage last Tuesday night, November 10th. The free event included a beans and rice community dinner, homemade desserts and […]
And this is how much fun we have in Floyd. The band was Annabelle’s Curse, headlining the start of the Crooked Road’s week of Mountains of Music Homecoming in Floyd and our town’s 3-day Artisan Trail Studio Tour. It was also Friday Night Jamboree and the streets and music venues were packed for the festivities. Building […]
There was a Sweet Melissa in the crowd and someone called out “Play Freebird” (wrong song but right spirit). Michael, who looks a lot like his Rock-and-Roll Hall of Famed dad, Gregg, and sounds like him too, jumped off the stage and came into the audience to dance and sing among us. He was taken […]
~ 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 (with a larger spread of photos) in The Floyd Press on November 27, 2013 The line to meet award-winning author Wendell Berry snaked through two rooms at the Floyd EcoVillage on Friday afternoon. Berry, an environmental activist and Kentucky farmer whose writings focus on rural agriculture and community, was in […]
“If you wait long enough it will eventually come to Floyd.” That’s what I’ve been saying for years and it was never truer than when the Bread & Puppet Theater came to town this week. At the invitation of a Floyd activist, the 50-year-old traveling troupe made Dogtown’s Sun Music Hall one of the stops […]
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press. “1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3” Katie Wells called out to her improvisation dance students at Dogtown’s Sun Hall on a recent Tuesday evening. It was the third class in an eight-week series, open to drop-ins and lovers of dance at all levels of experience. Under the direction of Wells, […]