Monday, July 18th, 2016
Mark Henderson always knew he would eventually re-open the Montgomery County trout farm his grandfather once operated. He just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. “Yeah, I had planned to do this for my retirement,” Henderson says, “but things didn’t exactly work out that way.” A two-story fall from a ladder in 2008 abruptly
Monday, July 18th, 2016
Late one morning, Corinne Graefe walked through an outbuilding that’s part of the fine furniture business, Phoenix Hardwoods, she and her husband, Bill, operate in Floyd. In the warm shadowy light, she examined slabs of various hardwood...
Monday, July 18th, 2016
Watching Dr. Daniel Hurd drive his 2001 Ferrari 360 Modena is to experience the sublime. In every sense, the machine gives the impression of being a mechanical marvel. Its engine, even at low RPMs, emits a persistent,...
Monday, July 18th, 2016
Dr. Matthew McCarthy, Doctor of Osteopathy (DO), employs an innovative model of healthcare that allows a direct relationship between the patient and physician without involvement of third party insurance, drug or hospital corporations. It’s called direct primary...
Monday, July 18th, 2016
“Necessity, who is the mother of invention,” is attributed to the Greek author and philosopher Plato a v-e-r-y l-o-n-g time ago, 427 BC – 347 BC. His words have proven true myriad times over, and Daryl Alderman...
Monday, July 18th, 2016
Even if you don’t consider yourself a college football fan, you’ve probably heard that Virginia Tech will play the University of Tennessee this fall in a game that has been years in the making. Long before it...
Monday, July 18th, 2016
Helpful. Loyal. Brave. These are three of the twelve core values that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) strive to possess. If you ever get the chance to check out the BSA Base Camp Ottari located right...
Monday, May 16th, 2016
Text by Emily Kathleen Alberts | Photos Courtesy of Beth Sanborn Newman She didn’t want to find out the sex of her baby in advance, so during her final months of pregnancy, Beth was busily painting...
Monday, May 16th, 2016
Text by Kelsey Foster | Photos by Nathan Cooke Giles County has a long, somewhat divisive relationship with alcohol. Because mixed-alcohol beverages are illegal in the county, one local legislator passed a law permitting any business...
Monday, May 16th, 2016
Text by Emily Kathleen Alberts Photos by Always and Forever Photography Quilts are becoming to barns what rocking chairs are to porches, and the earliest versions of barn quilts dates back hundreds of years. Some say...