Cosmic Charlie set some “fire on the mountain” Saturday night at Chantilly Farm in Floyd. For me, going to Grateful Dead concerts – whether an actual show with Jerry Garcia and the rest or a great tribute band like Cosmic Charlie or The Kind – is something like going to church. There is a following […]
And that’s no fish tale. I’m not surprised that it was mostly Floyd dancers who danced on the grass at the Yoga Jam main stage while Floyd-based band Music Road played Sunday afternoon. We, my peers and I, have watched most of the band members grow-up and grow into excellent musicians. Some of us have […]
Rockport, Massachusetts is a place that’s forever etched in my psyche. Whenever I’m there, I feel like I’ve walked into a timeless painting. The first time I went to Rockport was in the early ’70s with my sister Sherry. It was a foundational experience and a brave endeavor for two girls to hit the road […]
Members of Preserve Floyd (PF) recently urged the Floyd Board of Supervisors (BOS) to adopt a Community Choice Resolution, committing to renewable energy development that would shift the county’s energy sources to 80% renewable by 2030 and 100% by 2050. “After the Great Depression, FDR initiated the New Deal,” said PF speaker Mary Freday, during […]
We dance on dance floors and on grassy knolls. On this occasion, it was Rootstock, a Floyd-style summertime bash that our friend Starroot hosts each year with live music, potluck food from our gardens and dips in the Milky Way pond. It was Starroot’s birthday party, and her children and grandchildren came from Massachusetts and […]
So we spent Friday in Blacksburg. While Joe was at a counselor training, I hung out at the Virginia Tech Duck Pond and made friends with some quacks. The ones in the above video clip sound more like dogs than ducks. I called them “the twins” because they were they were the only ones of […]
___Wordless Wednesday
I knew attending my friend Garry’s mom’s 100th birthday party would be a good way to celebrate my own birthday too. It was the first time we met, but we were both born on May 17th and so, shared a bond right away. Her name is Laura, and she proudly announced that she was born […]
He told me he was 71 and I was ready to believe him because he’s so young at heart. The party was held at the Zion Lutheran Church where Dick was a minister for many years. He’s a well-loved member of the Floyd community and was surrounded by loving attention. There were sing-a-longs, a serenade […]
Candles were lit, and sage smoke wafted through the spacious spread of rooms. The altars were decked with ceremonial objects. Drum beats rolled and voices rose in song. A black shawl draped. A gold fabric flowed. Earth, water fire and air, east, south, west and north were called in. A priestess declared, “It has all […]
It was our first time at The Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, and we went for good reason, to see the iconic singer songwriter whose 1970 album that bore his name played regularly on my turntable throughout the ‘70s: Tom Rush. While settling into our seats, we ran into friends from Floyd who also […]
One of my favorite parts of Floyd Mardi Gras are the dance performances by dancers that I’ve been following for years. This year professional dancer Katie Wells wowed the crowd with scarves. She danced to She Comes in Many Colors and led party goers in an interactive line dance. Yoga and dance teacher Leia Jones […]
So the story goes: Joe was a big attraction when he first came to Floyd. He came from D.C. to be teacher at our independent Blue Mountain School, where my sons went and where I taught a weekly creative writing class. The first time I saw him was at a community gathering for Harmonic Convergence […]
It wasn’t unusual back then to knock on a stranger’s door and ask about an adjacent abandoned farmhouse. The families of these older houses had moved into modern brick ranches and would sometimes rent the old farmhouse for $100 a month. That’s how we found the “612 House” [christened after its road number]. The young […]
-The following is my story of coming to Floyd that first appeared in Floydiana, an e-book by Randall Wells Where else but in Floyd can you learn from an old-timer how to forage ginseng one day and then meet Wavy Gravy – the Woodstock clown with an ice-cream flavor named after him – in town […]
– Please look for a story and spread of photos in this week’s Floyd Press newspaper.
Chai truffles, coffee caramels, peppermint bark, cranberry-orange pecan clusters are just some of the artisan chocolates featured at Cocoa Mia, a new chocolate lounge in downtown Floyd, across from the Courthouse. Morgan Ohland (pictured in blue) is Cocoa Mia’s owner and chocolatier. She crafts chocolate confections daily on site, along with chocolate beverages, which include […]
No, this is not The Blue Man Group. And these aren’t the Blue People . We’re dancing at the Dogtown Roadhouse to Music Road Company, a blend of Spoonfight (brothers), Color J (brothers) and others, but some might call them Subwonky. We also danced to this opening band, The Universal Truth Orchestra. This is me and […]
