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Double Take: 'A Place for Birds'
The object of “A Place for Birds,” by Melissa Stewart, is to educate readers about different kinds of birds and how human involvement affects those birds.
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Bristol man releases book on pop songs
For more than a decade, Dr. Guy V. Briggs has been working on the stories of his small book, "Pop Song Magic: Have An Affair With Your Favorites."
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Classes Calendar
HOW TO SUBMIT INFORMATION Submission deadline is Monday noon for events scheduled during the upcoming week. To submit calendar entries, email: features@bristolnews.com; or fax: (276) 669-3696. For more information, Monday-Friday, call (276) 669-2181.
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Sunday calendar
HOW TO SUBMIT INFORMATION Submission deadline is Monday noon for events scheduled during the upcoming week. Notices running without a date must be updated monthly to continue in the listing. To submit calendar entries, email features@bristolnews.com or fax to (276) 669-3696. For more information, call Mary Dutton, (276) 645-2556.
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Some Kind of Love: A Valentine's Day Love Story
It started as your typical American love story. He was a long-haired, shaggy, wild man in college. And she was a petite blonde, full of sass and confidence, and not afraid to say anything. The year was 1975.
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Pioneers in Paradise: How Senekers Corner got its name
It has long been my pleasure to introduce the present generation of Bristolians to pioneers of this city of whom they have never heard. Among them may be named the once very prominent Elijah Hill Seneker. So prominent was he and the business he operated so long that a downtown street corner bore his name.
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Local Bigfoot-like creature explored in Sunday episode of "Finding Bigfoot"
The legend of “The Beast of Gum Hill” -- the mysterious Bigfoot-like creature that many Southwest Virginians insist roams Saltville and nearby places – will be nationally featured during a Sunday night episode of “Finding Bigfoot,” on the Animal Planet network.
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Friday Calendar
HOW TO SUBMIT INFORMATION To submit calendar entries, email features@bristolnews.com or fax (276) 669-3696. Deadline is noon on Monday.
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Martinsville Speedway, Gary Sinise to help SWVA wounded warrior
Concert to help Patrick County Marine Corporal Joshua Kerns, who lost much of his legs, and part of his right arm in Afghanistan
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The Bookworm: 'A Slave in the White House'
As I read “A Slave in the White House,” I often wondered what, for instance, Paul Jennings might have thought about a Black president?
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Tennis Anyone?
Growing up in Lynchburg, Va., Charles Vess loved to draw comic book heroes. And later, he got a job actually drawing figures in comic books.
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Center Stage
Make way for Black Stone Cherry. Their ongoing path burned leads to Capone’s in Johnson City on Feb. 14. Bands Cavo and Rain open the show but mistake not the headliners. There’s certainly no mistaking their distinctive approach to music.
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'It feeds my soul'
Connye Florance’s father sat at the piano. Her siblings all sang. Family sang. And she sang, too.
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Short Takes
Hip-hop meets old school funk and soul via Knoxville’s Jaystorm Project.
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Wolfe's High Country grapes have close ties
What Dick Wolfe, the chemist, may really want to do, out of everything, is to once again watch his grapes freeze on the vine and then go out and make some ice wine.
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39-year-old horse is cornerstone of therapy
Susie Branson, founder and director of the Wonder Kids Therapeutic Equestrian Center in Bristol, Va., could barely keep the tears from her eyes as students and parents celebrated the 39th birthday of Prodigy, a registered Arabian gelding who is the cornerstone of the riding program.
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Review
The Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., seldom, if ever, brings anything back right off the bat, but “The 39 Steps” is making a big exception.
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Retirement? Neigh!
Susie Branson, founder and director of the Wonder Kids Therapeutic Equestrian Center in Bristol, Va., could barely keep the tears from her eyes as students and parents celebrated the 39th birthday of Prodigy, a registered Arabian gelding.
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Calendars
HOW TO SUBMIT Calendar is a free public service published at the discretion of the Bristol Herald Courier. Submission deadline is Monday at noon for the items scheduled during the upcoming week. Clubs are encouraged to submit notices of appearances of musicians at nightspots in Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia. Send a schedule with show times, contact numbers and photos of performers to ElecTriCity Calendar, Bristol Herald Courier Calendar, P.O. Box 609, Bristol, VA 24201. Fax: (276) 669-3696. Email: features@bristolnews.com. Call: Mary Dutton, (276) 645-2556.
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Breaking through … together
17-year-old Kaitlyn Baker of Pound, Va., appears on the cusp of country music success. A handful of major record companies are interested in signing her including Big Machine, Show Dog, Capitol and Warner Bros. She will perform for those labels and more during an all-important and perhaps pivotal showcase on Feb. 29 in Nashville. Likewise her 15-year-old friend, McKenna Andrews of Kingsport, Tenn., sure seems well along a similar route. There aren't any audiences with major record labels just yet, but she released a three-song EP in December helmed by Grammy nominated producer Travis Wyrick with that in mind.
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Colorful, quirky San Antonio is larger than life
"You can go to hell ... I’m going to Texas," Davy Crockett said.
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About Books
For years, Michael K. "Mike" Shaffer studied the Civil War in Abingdon and Washington County, Va.
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Wythe, Grayson county youth to perform at Heartwood
The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail presents The Crooked Road Youth Music Series Concert on Feb. 9 at 6 p.m. at Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway. The concert will feature The Iron Mountain Ridgerunners from Grayson County, Va., and Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder from Wythe County, Va.
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Double Take
“Obsessed with Star Wars: Test Your Knowledge of a Galaxy Far, Far Away” by Benjamin Harper, is for the most ardent of “Star Wars” fans. Only if you are familiar with all the movies will you have the slightest chance of answering even half of the thousands of questions contained in this book.
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The Bookworm
In the past four years, you’ve learned that you can’t spend frivolously. You can’t use credit unwisely, there’s no “wiggle room” on bill-paying, and the only way to face your future is to put money back into your own pocket with savings and investments.
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