Clintwood, VA – Featuring fiddle, button accordion, guitar, bodhran, bouzouki, flute, vocals, and dance, Poor Man’s Gambit brings an evening of Celtic music to the Jettie Baker Center in Clintwood at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4th. Tickets are $10 at the door. Children and students will be admitted free. This performance is sponsored in part… Read More Celtic Trio to Play Jettie Baker Center
© Jerry F. Couch The untitled poem you are about to read was sent to the Clinch Valley Times many years ago by the late Elizabeth Gose Wolfe. Mrs. Wolfe taught fifth grade at Castlewood Elementary School for many years and those of us “of a certain” age remember her well. The poem was written… Read More A Humorous 1927 Poem by James Oney Dickenson about the “Church Ladies”
Wise, VA – The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Theater Department stages the workings of love as residents of Athens mingle with fairies from a local forest in their production of William Shakespeare’s, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” set to open Thursday, April 25 on campus in the Gilliam Center for the Arts Black Box… Read More “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” On Stage at UVA Wise
© Jerry F. Couch [This article first appeared in the Clinch Valley Times in early 2013. No part of this article may be used without the written permission of the author.] SALTVILLE, VIRGINIA was crucial to the Confederacy during the waning days of the Civil War. One of the South’s few functioning rail lines passed… Read More DEATH AT BLUE BELL ISLAND
Pound, VA – Bristol Ballet presents Shakespeare’s iconic comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in excerpted ballet form on Friday, April 12th at 1 p.m. at J.W. Adams Combined School in Pound. This is a school performance to which the public is invited. There is no cost to attend. For more information and to make reservations visit proartva.org. “A… Read More Bristol Ballet to Performer “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Pound, VA