by Doug Thompson | Jan 10, 2016 | Musings
Interestingly, and sometimes controversially, tourism and the attention of traveling visitors are issues treated as things recent for Floyd County and the environs of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia. But tourism, as an active part of the county, goes...
by Doug Thompson | May 21, 2015 | Musings
“If you feel like you’re in control (of your car), you ain’t going fast enough,” Floyd County’s Curtis Turner would say. That quote is often attributed to Mario Andretti, Indycar and Formula One champion, who stole it from Turner early in his career. Turner was...
by Doug Thompson | May 22, 2014 | Musings
Floyd County native Curtis Turner accomplished many things on and off the track in his NASCAR career but fell short, once again, in balloting for a place in the racing series’ Hall of Fame in Charlotte. Danville’s Wendell Scott, the first African-American...
by Doug Thompson | May 11, 2014 | Musings
My mother died on August 28, 2012, at age 88. She passed quietly in her sleep at an assisted living facility in Pulaski County, where she had lived for the final years of her life. When it became obvious the day before that the end was near, I sat at our bedside...
