Blue Ridge Chronicles : A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia

by Bowman, Rex

• ISBN13: 9781596294547
• ISBN10: 159629454X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Many of the highlanders in Virginia's western mountains live in small communities with names such as Stonebruise, Novelty and Wangle Junction, and here their stories are chronicled by one of their own, Floyd County native and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Rex Bowman, roving reporter for the "Richmond Times-Dispatch," Colorful characters abound, from folks in Independence who have a decades-old tradition of racing outhouses, to the brawlers in St. Paul who once gave the town a reputation for world-class wickedness, to the purveyors of Roanoke's Texas Tavern who have never in seventy years put ketchup on their hamburgers. "Blue Ridge Chronicles" is a delightful look at how the lively have lived in Southwest Virginia's backcountry

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Haints and Hollers	p. 11
Frontier Town	p. 15
Ambulance #1 1/2	p. 21
Wangle What?	p. 25
Sergeant Major	p. 31
Art for the Dead	p. 35
Star City Star	p. 41
The Camps	p. 45
Crockett	p. 51
Overnight Sensation	p. 55
The Runs	p. 59
Home for Dinner	p. 63
The Redoubt	p. 67
How Goose Pimple Got Its Name	p. 71
Historic Shootout	p. 77
Diet and Exercise	p. 83
Hanging Out	p. 87
Metamorphosis	p. 91
Life and Death of a Motel	p. 95
The Cost of a Dam	p. 99
A Better Maple Syrup	p. 105
Is This Some Sort of a Joke?	p. 109
Not Fade Away	p. 113
Churches of Rock	p. 117
Soul of the Hero	p. 123
"On the Other Side"	p. 127
"A Very Enjoyable Thing"	p. 133
Where New Year's Is a Blast	p. 137
'Shine Town	p. 141
Old Fiddlers	p. 145
"Gone for a Good While"	p. 149
Pickin' Butter Beans	p. 155
About the Author	p. 159
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