Faces of Floyd

A shot from Monday's girls' soccer game at Floyd County High School.

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An all Floyd Saturday night at the Country Store. Bernie Coveney, Mike Mitchell and Abe Goorskey opened the evening with their eclectic mix of music, followed by Upland Express. My shoulder went dead halfway through the opening show and I wasn't able to get Upland but here are some photos of Bernie, Mike and Abe.

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Prom Night Saturday night. Tuxes, evening wear and all that jazz. Abbey Bowen (right) dropped by the Foyd Country Store with her friends to show off their prom finery and pose for some pix.

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Musicians try out the new sidewalk alcoves in Floyd on a Friday night.

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The 16 Hands weekend studio tour kicked off with a reception Friday night in the Hotel Floyd Conference Room in the Village Green.

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There they sat, writers all, in a circle in the back of the Floyd Country Store, reading to each other.

They were members of the the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative, a group that includes local blogger and writer Fred First, who organized this collective reading at the home of the Friday Night Jamboree.

Fred and Colleen Redman highlighted the event through their blogs but the audience for this performance was composed primarily of the writers' themselves.

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The large windows, bright colors and high ceilings of Frank and Sally Walker's Cafe del Sol provide a great backdrop for photos, especially when the evening light is flowing into he windows.

Shots from Saturday night's Spoken Word. Click on the "next" and "previous" links above the photos to see all of the photos.