Cheerleaders
When you take thousands of photos over a period of years — which I have of many subjects since returning to Floyd County in 2004, it’s a task to go back through images to find some favorites on subjects. But it is a pleasant task. According to my photo filing system, I have shot more [...]
Female high school athletics are anything but genteel. The young women who compete on the softball or soccer fields, the track course, the tennis or basketball courts play with a ferocity that matches — or a times exceeds — their male counterparts. Floyd County High School’s female athletes have racked up the most championships, especially [...]
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They are the mentors of high school athletes who are also our children, our grandchildren, our nieces and our nephews. They can be tough, even brutal, as they seek to mold young bodies and minds into athletic machines, ready for competition on the gridiron, the basketball court, the track or the field. Some have brought [...]
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A grab shot from The Friday Night Jamboree a few years ago turned into one of my favorite photos. David and Jolie were dating at the time but later married. Wood served as manager of the Floyd County Store until he moved on to a new job in Roanoke recently. Joli is an artist with [...]
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For many regulars of The Friday Night Jamboree, fiddler Clyde Williams and his “Old Time Band” are the face of the weekly event. Williams has played on the Jamboree stage for many years and his band is traditionally the closer on the last Friday of each month. The photo above was taken in 2002 when [...]
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They are the restauranteurs, the ones who not only feed Floyd Countians but attract regulars from far and near to our little place in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Michael Gucciardo runs the show and Mickey G’s Restaurant and Bistro, a haven for good Italian food. Natasha Shishkevish offers up what she calls “comfort food” at [...]
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It’s no secret that Martha Spencer of White Top Mountain Band is one of my favorite photographic ubjects. The talented musician/singer/entertainer is the sparkplug of the Family Band out of the Grayson highlands. The photo at right was a rare quiet moment on stage for Martha. It was a grab shot during FloydFest six years [...]
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A capacity crowd of both locals and visitors who shelled out five bucks each for a night of music, cornpone comedy and storytelling showed up Saturday night for the first broadcast of the Floyd Radio Show at the Country Store. The show, which airs the first Saturday Night of each month was broadcast live over [...]
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With more and more Springlike weather (while not forgetting the cold weather in the weekend’s forecast), the streets of Floyd are packed with music and listeners on Friday nights. The traditional “First Friday” observations at The Jacksonville Center, Winter Sun and Station on South Locust added to the crowd this past Friday night as the [...]
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Serena Wimmer and Donald Jacobs tied the knot at the Jamboree in Floyd Friday night. The met at the Jamboree, danced many a night away and fell in love amid the clogging, flatfooting and bluegrass music. So the music stopped briefly Friday night and the dance floor and stage became a wedding chapel for the [...]
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