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Blue Ridge Chronicles:: A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia

Blue Ridge Chronicles:: A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia

by Rex Bowman
Blue Ridge Chronicles:: A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia
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Blue Ridge Chronicles:: A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia

Blue Ridge Chronicles:: A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia

by Rex Bowman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596294547
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 04/04/2008
Series: American Chronicles
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.32(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Rex Bowman is a native of Southwest Virginia who has covered the hills and hollows of the state's Appalachian corner for more than a decade as a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A graduate of the University of Maryland (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), he has won numerous journalism prizes (and was nominated for a Pulitzer). His work has appeared in Time magazine and he is the author of the novel, Cannibals. He lives in Roanoke, VA.

Table of Contents


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