Many of the following photos were published in The Floyd Press on May 7, 2009. 1. A busy group at last Saturday’s Floydfest workday. Workers from Floyd, Blacksburg, Radford, Hillsville, and Cana came to exchange their labor for tickets for the July 23-26 Floydfest music festival or for the Floyd Fandango Beer and Wine Fest [...]
1. The Vanishing 2. The Loitering 3. The latest Evidence of Spring
1. A year or so ago I would never have guessed that I’d be interviewing and writing about an opera singer, a cheesemaker, a toymaker, and a pool player. It sounds like a jump rope song. 2. One thing I’ve learned about going on interviews for stories is that wearing my reading glasses in a [...]
The kiln was our language and we all came to speak it fluently. ~ Josh Copus Recently when talking on the phone to my Asheville potter son Josh, he spoke enthusiastically about watching blades of new grass grow. I thought it was a reference to his stopping to take time to smell the roses and [...]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press newspaper on April 30, 2009. “But how will my friends know it is me, Barnaby, the old barn?” “Simple,” said the toymaker. “Your boiler and cab are made from the logs that you had when you were a barn, and the roof of your cab is [...]
Tu Tu Cute Aroma Amore Come in a Little Closer
“Do you have any warts?” the conversation began at the morning breakfast nook under a giant pine with a view out onto the garden. He didn’t have any warts left, so I guess the celandine that I replanted from my friend Jayn’s garden worked. And now it had spread throughout the garden and needed to [...]
