Sunday, July 24: Flood Relief Benefit w/ 28 acts!
Devastating floods throughout central and southeastern West Virginia killed at least 23 people, destroyed 1,500 homes and damaged another 4,000. It is also estimated that 125 businesses were destroyed. 12 counties were under a state of emergency including Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Roane, Summers and Webster. The West Virginia Department of Transportation announced that […]
WV ARTIST ON DISPLAY: REPURPOSED FOR ART’S SAKE!
While walking through a grocery store in 2011, Merideth Young had an ah-ha moment, aisle 7, the beverage aisle. She noticed all the colors and patterns on the cans. She thought to herself, “I wonder what I can make out of that!” With a BFA in metalsmithing and jewelry design, it didn’t take her long […]
BAILEY’S PACE: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
When I think about West Virginia, I think about my home. I have been raised on top of mountains where you can see the sky up close and clouds from above. I am young. But in my short time here I have seen many things: sunrises that inspire purpose, sunsets that bathe your heart in […]
PSEUDO NEWS: A SEARCH FOR SOLACE.
I hate killing. Mass murders are in the headlines. My country is engaged in an election which is more like a war. Hatred and vitriol are the fare of the public media. And there is no solace in the fact that whichever candidate I vote for, they will be the elected commander-in-chief of a large […]
AL FRESCO DINING IN THE VALLEY AT STELLA’S!
Lewisburg has launched into summer, which means all over town the restaurants and bars are breaking out the patio furniture. With lush greenery in the patio, Stella’s al fresco dining makes it easy to forget that you’re in the middle of the valley. The patio is lined with flowering plants and shrubs, and covered by […]
HALFBAKED N’ BOTHERED: MUCH ADO ABOUT POO
Seriously. We have a terrorist attack a month. A near daily massacre of innocent citizens by someone who bought an assault rifle at a flea market, a self medicated jobless populace and a presidential election that George Orwell might have imagined, yet we are fighting about where we lay our turds. I could not have […]
IN THE SPIRIT: ENJOYING YOUR WINE IN THE SUMMER.
Far be it from me to contradict Nancy Sinatra, but my “summer wine” is not necessarily made from strawberries, cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring….although you’d probably have to have more than a few gray hairs on your head to get the reference, I suppose. And this is not to bash Arbor Mist at […]
MY DOG & I: PERSONAL SPACE
Most humans crave touch. We like to be stroked and cuddled, we touch each other to emphasize a point and we hold hands to display affection. It is a way of connecting and reassuring, of soothing and comforting. We like it so much that we try to convince all the other creatures on the planet […]
Friday, Aug 5: Paintings from Poems Exhibit!
For the past several years, a local art group, the Greenbrier Artists, has cooperated with the Lewisburg Literary Festival to celebrate reading and art by holding an art exhibit based on the written word. The exhibit is held at the Greenbrier Valley Visitors’ Center on East Washington Street in Lewisburg. Greenbrier Artists is a non-profit […]